KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
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In the 20th century, Edwin Hubble deduced from observations that there are galaxies other than the Milky Way. Hubble’s observations depended on improvements in a technology first developed by which scientist?
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Democritus
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Isaac Newton
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Galileo Galilei
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1970s NASA and the European Space Agency took up the idea and proposed a 3 metre space telescope. Funding began to flow in 1977 and it was decided to name the telescope after Edwin Powell Hubble who had discovered the expansion of the Universe in the 1920s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Views from outer space telescopes are clearer than those from Earth-based telescopes. Earth-based telescopes have a greater range of light detection. Human error is reduced by the use of the Hubble telescope. The Hubble telescope is used to examine events that cannot be explained.
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