When did Edwin Hubble invent the telescope?

Answer 1

Edwin Hubble was an astronomer who worked with Earth-based telescopes, and who died in 1953, before the launch of the first artificial satellite. The Hubble Space Telescope was named in his honor almost 40 years later.

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If anything can be said to be invented by Hubble, it is to be found in a few ideas that came out of a few discoveries he made such as the existence of the Universe.

Only at the turn of the century with the construction of gigantic telescopes of almost a meter in diameter was it possible to distinguish the blobs known as nebulae as being outside of our galaxy. In the 1920s Hubble's observations confirmed the existence of other galaxies in the universe outside of our own galaxy, an idea that existed, but was controversial and lacked evidence earlier. (Earlier, the universe was thought to be infinite, but mostly empty except for our own little neighborhood of a few billion stars in the Milky Way. As always, we were the center of the Universe.)

In the next years, Hubble expanded this with data from others to quantify the observation that the Universe was expanding. (Now called Hubble's Law.) This led, of course, to the first data supporting the Big Bang theory suggested in by Georges Lemaître in 1927.

Answer 2

Edwin Hubble did not invent the telescope. He was an astronomer who used telescopes to make significant discoveries, such as the expansion of the universe. The telescope has been around for centuries before Hubble's time.

Answer 3

Edwin Hubble did not invent the telescope.

Answer 4

Edwin Hubble did not invent the telescope but other astronomers did name the HUBBLE telescope after him.