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NASA Is Celebrating: A Flickering Star Led to the Discovery of a New Galaxy by Hubble
Albert Einstein initially dismissed it as utter nonsense. But after researchers uncovered more and more evidence about 100 years ago that the universe is not a static, unchanging entity, even the creator of the theory of relativity had to admit that he was wrong. The discovery of cosmic expansion is inextricably linked with the name Edwin Hubble to this day: no wonder, since the young US astronomer was the first to recognize the true nature of a strangely flickering distant star and prove that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the cosmos! Ultimately, Hubble's revolutionary findings thus also paved the way for the Big Bang theory – and yet this is only one side of the astronomical coin. Because the truth also includes the fact that the expansion of the universe is still overshadowed by huge question marks – and that it sometimes presents the experts with unsolvable problems.
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NASA Is Celebrating: A Flickering Star Led to the Discovery of a New Galaxy by Hubble
Albert Einstein initially dismissed it as utter nonsense. But after researchers uncovered more and more evidence about 100 years ago that the universe is not a static, unchanging entity, even the creator of the theory of relativity had to admit that he was wrong. The discovery of cosmic expansion is inextricably linked with the name Edwin Hubble to this day: no wonder, since the young US astronomer was the first to recognize the true nature of a strangely flickering distant star and prove that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the cosmos! Ultimately, Hubble's revolutionary findings thus also paved the way for the Big Bang theory – and yet this is only one side of the astronomical coin. Because the truth also includes the fact that the expansion of the universe is still overshadowed by huge question marks – and that it sometimes presents the experts with unsolvable problems.
#nasa #celebration #flickering #star #led #discovery #new #galaxy
