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 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 was extracted by Edward Aswell from a larger manuscript after Wolfe's death. "The Hills Beyond" is usually considered a novel or unfinished novel, but has also been described as a collection of sketches, stories, and novellas. The Hills Beyond was created by Aswell mainly by taking a group of chapters cut from the beginning of Wolfe's original epic manuscript, and attaching sketches cut from various sources. The book