GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

THE UNIVERSE

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Who is the astronomer in 1929 announced the theory that the universe is continually expanding.This astronomer studied light from distant stars and found they are moving away from each other.
A
Johannes Kepler
B
Edward Hubble
C
Isaac Newton
D
Aristotle
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Hubble’s brilliant observation was that the red shift of galaxies was directly proportional to the distance of the galaxy from earth. That meant that things farther away from Earth were moving away faster. In other words, the universe must be expanding. He announced his finding in 1929.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like the Hubble Space Telescope, Edwin Hubble’s discoveries transformed the frontier of scientific knowledge. His work took us beyond the Milky Way and placed us in an ever-expanding universe with a myriad of galaxies beyond our own.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the universe was not static (opens in new tab). Rather, it was expanding; a find that revealed the universe was apparently born in a Big Bang.

Detailed explanation-4: -Edwin Hubble’s special place in the history of astronomy In the 1920s, Hubble was among the first to recognize that there is a universe of galaxies beyond the boundaries of our Milky Way.

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