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Oh, This is a bonus episode featuring remastered audio from an older episode.

Expect more stories of the people behind the missions in season 18 coming in September.

Join Patreon for an ad-free experience at September. Astronomy cast episode 162 from Monday November 2nd 2009

Edwin Hubble

welcome to astronomy cast our weekly facts-based journey through the Cosmos, where we help you understand

not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane. I'm the publisher of the universe today and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay,

a professor at Southern Illinois University Ebertsville.

Hi Pamela.

Hey Fraser, how's it going?

Very well.

All right, so we're going to start learning about some of the acclaimed astronomers in the history of astronomy.

We've had a lot of people ask us for these kinds of shows and they're kind of rough to do.

So hopefully Pamela's got all this information babbling around in the head

but let's see what happens okay so now you might know the name Hubble because of

the Hubble space, but this phenomenal

observatory was named after one of the most influential astronomers in

modern history. Hubble discovered that galaxies are speeding away from us in all directions

leading to our current understanding of an ever-expanding universe and

leading back to the Big Bang. Let's learn about the man behind the

telescope.

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