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100 years ago this week, Edwin Hubble announced his monumental discovery that the universe existed beyond our own Milky Way galaxy. He noted that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light years away – too remote to be a part of the Milky Way.


In January 1925, Carnegie Science astronomer Edwin Hubble opened the doors to the cosmos by announcing his discovery that the universe existed beyond our own Milky Way galaxy. Carnegie, the American Astronomical Society, and the Space Telescope Science Institute commemorated the 100-year anniversary of Hubble's groundbreaking discovery.

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