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Who among the following found in his telescope observations that the farther away the galaxy was, the faster it appeared to be moving away from us?
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George Lemaitre
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Fred Hoyle
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Vesto Slipher
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Edwin Hubble
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Hubble also demonstrated that galaxies farther away from us are receding faster than those nearby – a fundamental observation now known as Hubble’s Law.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hubble used the 100 inch Hooker Telescope on Mount Wilson, then the largest telescope in the world, to study the Andromeda Nebula, M 31. In 1923 he identified some of the stars within it as Cepheid variables.
Detailed explanation-3: -Edwin Hubble, for whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named, was one of the leading astronomers of the twentieth century. His discovery in the 1920s that countless galaxies exist beyond our own Milky Way galaxy revolutionized our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
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