EDWIN HUBBLE

ABOUT EDWIN HUBBLE:

FULL NAME: Edwin Powell Hubble

DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH: November 20, 1889,
Marshfield, Missouri
DIED: September 28, 1953, San Marino, California
PROFESSION: Astronomer (Cosmologist)
 DISCOVERIES:
• Hubbleꞌs law ( v = H0D ); relationship
between galaxyꞌs speed and its distance

• Universe expansion

• He demonstrated the existence of galaxies

other than our own
 HONORS:
AWARDS:
• Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 1924;
• Bruce Medal in 1938;
• Franklin Medal in 1939;
• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1940;
• Legion of Merit for outstanding contribution to ballistics research in 1946;

NAMED AFTER HIM:

• Asteroid 2069 Hubble;
• The crater Hubble on the Moon;
• Orbiting Hubble Space Telescope;
• Edwin P. Hubble Planetarium, located in  Brooklyn NY
• Edwin Hubble Highway, the stretch of Interstate 44 passing through his
birthplace of Marshfield, Missouri
• Hubble Middle School, a public school in Wheaton, Illinois where he lived
from 11 years old and up
 HUBBLE SPACE
TELESCOPE
- Launched into low earth orbit in 1990, and remains in
operation

- HST orbits about 547 kilometers above Earth and it

travels about 8 kilometers per second

- It takes sharp pictures of objects in the sky such as

planets, stars and galaxies..

- It was called The Large Space Telescope until 1983,

when telescope was named after Edwin Hubble, because
his work helped show that the universe is expanding,
which led to the big-bang theory.
- Lyman Spitzer's "Astronomical advantages of an
extraterrestrial observatory„ (1946)

- In it, he discussed the two main advantages that a space-

based observatory would have over ground-based telescopes

- In 1977 ,Spitzer and John Bahcall won the necessary

political support for the project
make
th

—SOMEONE FAMOUS
Lyman Spitzer
(1914-1997)
- The mirror and the optics on HST were built by the
Perkin-Elmer Corporation

- A company called Lockheed Martin built the

complex spacecraft at its facility in Sunnyvale,
California.
SOME OF THE PHOTOS THAT HAVE
BEEN TAKEN BY THIS TELESCOPE:
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!

WE HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT

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