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aug 17, 1929 - Hubble's Theory

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The American astronomer Edwin Hubble stunned the scientific community by demonstrating that there was more to the universe than just our Milky Way galaxy and that there were in fact many separate islands of stars - thousands, perhaps millions of them, and many of them huge distances away from our own.

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aug 17, 1929
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~ 96 years ago