Marie Drake Planetarium

1994 to 1996 Shows and Events

1994 - 1995

No record of shows

1996

Mars (2 shows)

2017 photo by Kevin Gill

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Edwin Hubble

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He and Einstein were pipe smokers.

Hubble, The Man, the Constant, the Telescope

Hubbble (1889-1953) was an American astronomer who profoundly changed understanding of the universe by confirming the existence of galaxies other than our own, the Milky Way. He also discovered that the degree of "Doppler shift" (specifically "redshift") observed in the light spectra from other galaxies increased in proportion to a particular galaxy's distance from Earth. This relationship became known as Hubble's law, and helped establish that the universe is expanding.

The Hubble telescope was named in his honor.