A Quote by Edwin Powell Hubble

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.

Edwin Powell Hubble

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Edwin Powell Hubble
American - Scientist
November 20, 1889 - September 28, 1953

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