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Hubble's law

Hubble's law, in astronomy, statement that the distances between galaxies (see galaxy) or clusters of galaxies are continuously increasing and that therefore the universe is expanding.

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Introduction
Discovery and Explanation of the Red Shift
Relative Motion of the Galaxies
Bibliography

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