Edwin Hubble Edwin Hubble Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology and is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time. Hubble discovered that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He used the strong direct relationship between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period (discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt) for scaling galactic and extragalactic distances. Hubble provided evidence
The Hills Beyond tells the story of the Joyner family, George Webber's maternal ancestors, in North Carolina from before the Civil War to the present. (Webber, a fictional character based by Wolfe on himself, was the protagonist of "The Web and the Rock" and "You Can't Go Home Again".) The "New York Times Book Review" said that "The Hills Beyond" "contains some of [Wolfe's] best, and certainly his most mature, work." The Hills Beyond The Hills Beyond is a novel by Thomas Wolfe, published posthumously in 1941. Like his earlier novels "The Web and the Rock" and "You Can't Go Home Again", it