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Hubble, Hubble's law and the expanding universe

Popular Physics 2009-04-20 v1

Abstract

Hubble's name is associated closely with the idea of an expanding universe as he discovered the relation between the recession velocity and distances of galaxies. Hubble also did a lot of pioneering work on the distribution of galaxies in the universe. In this article we take a look at Hubble's law and discuss how it relates with models of the universe. We also give a historical perspective of the discoveries that led to the Hubble's law.

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@article{arxiv.0904.2633,
  title  = {Hubble, Hubble's law and the expanding universe},
  author = {J. S. Bagla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2633},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 1 figure