In short, Edwin Hubble is the man who wiped away the ancient universe and discovered a new universe that would shrink humanity's self-perception into being an insignificant speck in the cosmos ...

Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable star in the Andromeda galaxy in 1923 revealed that the universe extends far beyond the Milky Way, fundamentally altering our understanding of the cosmos.

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in ...