Douglas MacDougal, Author at Astronomy.com https://www.astronomy.com Astronomy news, photos, observing events, and space missions. Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:16:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://www.astronomy.com/uploads/2024/10/cropped-favicon-32x32.jpg Douglas MacDougal, Author at Astronomy.com https://www.astronomy.com 32 32 Is it time to rename the Hubble constant? https://www.astronomy.com/science/renaming-the-hubble-constant/ Tue, 03 Dec 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.astronomy.com/?p=155086// Most people associate the discovery that faraway galaxies are receding from us — and thus, that the universe is expanding — with Edwin Hubble, thanks to his landmark 1929 paper. It was one of the most fundamental discoveries in the history of science. But Hubble did not discover the expansion. In the 1910s, a LowellContinue reading "Is it time to rename the Hubble constant?"

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