In his research paper, Hubble said the issue could be decided only by more powerful instruments. Others thought they were island universes farther away in space. Some astronomers thought nebulae were part of our Milky Way galaxy. It was the name given to permanent, cloudy areas in the sky outside our solar system. The astronomical term "nebulae," Hubble explained, had come down through the centuries. His research involved a major question astronomers could not answer: What are nebulae? Hubble watched the night sky with instruments at the university's Yerkes Observatory. He returned to the University of Chicago. After a short time, however, he decided he did not want to be a lawyer. He opened a law office in Louisville, Kentucky. In nineteen thirteen, Hubble returned to the United States. He was interested in British Common Law, because his family had come to America from England many years before. He went to Queen's College at Oxford, England.Īt Oxford, Hubble studied law. Instead, he decided to continue his studies. Several people urged him to train for the world heavyweight boxing championship after college. He was a member of the University of Chicago championship basketball team in nineteen-oh-nine.
Then he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois. He spent his early years in the state of Kentucky. Many of them are using the Hubble Space Telescope that is named after him.Įdwin Powell Hubble was born in eighteen eighty-nine in Marshfield, Missouri. Today, other astronomers continue the work he began. Edwin Hubble made his most important discoveries in the nineteen twenties. He changed our ideas about the universe and how it developed. Today, Richard Rael and Tony Riggs tell the story of American astronomer Edwin Hubble. EXPLORATIONS - a program in Special English by the Voice of America.
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