# Edwin Hubble

> He shattered the known universe—literally. Hubble proved those smudges of light weren't gas clouds in our galaxy but entire galaxies beyond it, then showed they were all racing away from us. The universe, it turned out, was expanding.

*American astronomer (1889–1953)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1889-11-20
- **Died:** 1953-09-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Edwin Powell Hubble was born November 20, 1889, and became the astronomer who redrew cosmology's map. He took objects long dismissed as nebulae—dust and gas inside the Milky Way—and proved they were galaxies in their own right, using Henrietta Swan Leavitt's 1908 discovery about Cepheid variable stars to measure impossible distances. In 1929 he confirmed that a galaxy's speed away from Earth increases with its distance, the pattern now called Hubble's law, though Georges Lemaître had proposed it two years earlier and Vesto Slipher had seen the red-shift evidence a decade before. The implication rewrote everything: the universe was expanding. He died September 28, 1953, and decades later they named a space telescope after him—the one that would see deeper into that expanding dark than he ever could.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 68.7 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 24.8 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 65.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 75.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #110

## Platforms
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## Topics
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