In whose honor was the Hubble Space Telescope named?
Edwin Hubble
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Galileo Galilei
Answer
The Hubble Space Telescope was named in honor of Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer who made many important discoveries about the universe. He is best known for his work on the expanding universe, which he discovered in 1929. Hubble also helped to develop the Hubble constant, which is a measure of the rate at which the universe is expanding.
Exploring the Cosmos: Discovering Edwin Hubble's Universe
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