hubble

¹

[huhb-uhl]

noun

1. a small hump, as on the surface of ice or a road.

2. Scot. and North England.

   1. a heap; pile.

   2. a tumult; hubbub; uproar.

Hubble

²

[huhb-uhl]

noun

1. Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.

Hubble

/ ˈhʌbəl /

noun

1. Edwin Powell. 1889–1953, US astronomer, noted for his investigations of nebulae and the recession of the galaxies

Hubble

1. American astronomer who demonstrated that there are galaxies beyond our own and that they are receding from ours, providing strong evidence that the universe is expanding. Hubble also established the first measurements for the age and radius of the known universe, and his methods for determining them remain in use today.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hubble¹

Perhaps < early Dutch hobbel knot, bump; akin to heuvel hill

Example Sentences

When combined with archival observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, the data revealed that the blast originated from a massive red supergiant star wrapped in an unexpected blanket of dust.

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She was the first woman to pilot a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the last person to “touch” the Hubble Space Telescope with the space shuttle’s robotic arm.

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She has logged 213 days in orbit — 200 on the International Space Station in 2021, and 13 days aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in 2009, as part of NASA’s final flight to carry out repairs and upgrades to Hubble.

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“They were flying on the International Space Station, they had done a lot on Hubble, they were an equal partner in spaceflight,” she said.

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Triumphs like the moon landings and the deep-space images from the Hubble and Webb space telescopes were great popular successes; the string of exploding rockets in its early days and the shuttle explosions cast lasting shadows over its work.

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