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Hubble finds the universe is expanding

1929 CE · United States, North America · Science

Hubble finds the universe is expanding
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Hubble's law, officially the Hubble–Lemaître law, is the observation in physical cosmology that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance. Thus, the farther a galaxy is from the Earth, the faster it moves away.

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