When Edwin Hubble arrived at Mount Wilson, California, in 1919, the completion of the 100-inch (2.

5m) hooker telescope was soon. At the time, the common view of the cosmos (everything that exists anywhere) was that the universe consisted only of the Milky Way galaxy. Using the hooker telescope, Hubble identified other things, such as Cepheid variables (a kind of star) in several spiral nebulae (spiral galaxies), including the Andromeda galaxy. In 19221923, his studies proved that there these galaxies were too far away to be part of the Milky Way and were in fact, galaxies outside our own. This idea had been heard from many other astronomers at the time. Despite this, Hubble, a thirty five year old scientist, had his findings published in the New York Times on 23rd November 1924. Hubbles findings changed the scientific view of the universe. Hubble also came up with the most commonly used system for identifying galaxies, and grouping them according to their appearance in images. He arranged the different groups of galaxies into what we know as the Hubble sequence.

Using his own measurement of galaxy distances, he discovered a rough figure of the objects distances with their redshifts. Although there was considerable scatter (a fair amount of occurring widely spaced), he was able to plot a trend line (used to shoe direction and speed) from the forty six galaxies and kept a value for the Hubble constant of 500 km/s/mpc, which is much higher than the accepted value. In 1929, Hubble made a law of the redshift distance of galaxies, known as the Hubbles law. Although people understood earlier that the universe was expanding, Hubbles statement led to a wider scale acceptance for this view. The law states that the greater the distance between any two galaxies, the greater their relative speeds of separation. This discovery was the first observational support for the big bang theory.