Mount Hubble

Mount Hubble (80°52′S 158°19′E) is a mountain rising to 2,490 metres (8,170 ft) between Mount Field and Mount Dick in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. It was named after American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Mount Wilson Observatory, 1919–53; in 1923 he furnished the first certain evidence that extragalactic nebulae were situated far outside the boundaries of our own galaxy, in fact were independent stellar systems.[1]

References
  1. "Hubble, Mount". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-06-29.

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