Mount Hubble

Mount Hubble (80°52′S 158°19′E / 80.867°S 158.317°E / -80.867; 158.317) is a mountain rising to 2490 m between Mount Field and Mount Dick in the Churchill Mountains. Named after American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1869–1953) of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Mount Wilson Observatory, 1919–53; he furnished the first certain evidence (1923) that extragalactic nebulae were situated far outside the boundaries of our own galaxy, in fact were independent stellar systems.

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