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He was an astronomer, and is credited with Hubble"s law, which has to do with Galaxies. He did NOT invent the space telescope named in his honor- this was a posthumous honor- like say, the Franklin Institute.

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Fr inventing the Hubble Space Telescope.

A2. His earlier important contribution (1924) was the Expanding Universe. Certain stars called Cepheid Variables have a close relationship between their brightness and the period of their brightness fluctuation. Thus these may be used as distance markers. This study gave us the Expanding Universe. Since confirmed by other evidence.
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Yes, he played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology and is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time.

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