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hubble [ huhb -uh l ] SHOW IPA
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noun
a small hump, as on the surface of ice or a road.
Scot. and North England . a heap; pile. a tumult; hubbub; uproar.
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Origin of hubble Perhaps <early Dutch hobbel knot, bump; akin to heuvel hill
Words nearby hubble hub-and-spoke ,
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Hubble
[ huhb -uh l ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈhʌb əl / PHONETIC RESPELLING
noun
Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
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How to use hubble in a sentence Added to existing Hubble observations, their results suggested such galaxies make up 90 percent of the total, leading to a new estimate—that there may be up to two trillion galaxies in the universe.
Hubble ’s work in 1929 pegged the universe at expanding in such a way that it should be roughly 2 billion years old.
You can check out all of the collisions below, and older images of colliding galaxies captured by Hubble here.
That extra energy in turn would make the cloud give off more light — the extra infrared glow that Hubble spotted.
The MOB had baseline observations from before the dimming and already had Hubble time scheduled to track the star’s brightness cycles.
The size and shape of Laniakea depend on the rate of cosmic expansion, which is described by the Hubble parameter.
Williams did it with me several times, for instance when I mentioned the Hubble Space Telescope.
Two teenage brothers apparently lit a campfire, smoked a nargillah—a hubble -bubble—and went home.
Allard K. Lowenstein was so far to the left of WFB that WFB wouldn't have been able to find him with the Hubble telescope.
Edward Hubble , the greatest astronomer of the 20th century, who discovered the expanding universe, he was inspired by Jules Verne.
The women are in the habit of enjoying the hubble -bubble, in groups, in a similar manner.
This moral mystery seemed too much for the company until Mr. Hubble tersely solved it by saying, "Naterally wicious."
Mr. Pumblechook and Mr. Hubble declined, on the plea of a pipe and ladies' society; but Mr. Wopsle said he would go, if Joe would.
I then descried Mr. and Mrs. Hubble ; the last-named in a decent speechless paroxysm in a corner.
This woman's name, according to the history of the church kept by John Whitmer, was Hubble .
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British Dictionary definitions for hubble
noun
Edwin Powell. 1889–1953, US astronomer, noted for his investigations of nebulae and the recession of the galaxies
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Scientific definitions for hubble
See Note at big bang Doppler effect .
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.
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