Friday, December 30, 2011

"To Infinity and Beyond"

On December 30, 1924, Edwin Hubble announced the existence of galaxies outside of our own Milky Way and forever changed the way we look at the universe.  At that time, Hubble was studying through the Hooker Telescope, then the world's largest, from Mount Wilson in California.  His observations resulted in many new discoveries, including the Redshift Distance Law of Galaxies, now known as Hubble's Law, which states that the greater the distance between two galaxies, the greater the relative speed of separation. This discovery helped gain support for - never mind, this lesson could go on and on and on (just like our expanding universe).

What do you see when you look in the night sky?  My thoughts are less scientific.  I often wonder if there is someone out there, on the other side of our galaxy or beyond, looking at a beautiful sky full of stars and wondering the same things I am...  

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