Associations to the word «Hubble»
Noun
- Telescope
- Nebula
- Galaxy
- Edwin
- Supernova
- Astronomer
- Constant
- Nasa
- Observatory
- Cosmology
- Chandra
- Optics
- Pluto
- Shuttle
- Tele
- Universe
- Astronomy
- Spiral
- Astronaut
- Einstein
- Bubble
- Spectrometer
- Voyager
- Doppler
- Bang
- Observation
- Relativity
- Optic
- Goddard
- Spacecraft
- Recession
- Mildred
- Galileo
- Wavelength
- Neptune
- Orbit
- Payload
- Hydra
- Cosmos
- Planck
- Parameter
- Asteroid
- Cluster
- Atlantis
- Comet
- Velocity
- Imaging
- Brightness
- Io
- Roscoe
- Camera
- Ultra
- Bulge
- Keefe
- Jupiter
- Expansion
- Measurement
- Compton
- Image
- Probe
- Uv
- Webb
- Disk
- Mission
- Robotic
- Discovery
- Gamma
- Harlow
- Aura
- Kepler
- Repair
- Lyman
- Curvature
Adjective
Wiktionary
HUBBLE, proper noun. An English surname derived from the Norman French given name Hubald.
HUBBLE, proper noun. (astronomy) The astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble.
HUBBLE, proper noun. (astronomy) The Hubble Space Telescope.
HUBBLE BUBBLE, noun. Alternative spelling of hubble-bubble
HUBBLE CONSTANT, noun. (astronomy) a number that expresses the rate of expansion of the universe; the velocity at which a distant object is receding from the Earth divided by its distance; its reciprocal gives the age of the universe
HUBBLE LAW, noun. (astronomy) states that the velocity at which a distant object is receding from the Earth (as measured by its redshift) is proportional to its distance; observational evidence for an expanding universe
HUBBLE TIME, noun. (astronomy) (cosmology) A constant defined as \(1/H_{0}\), where \(H_{0}\) is the Hubble constant. \(1/H_{0}\) is equal to 4.35×1017 seconds or 13.8 billion years.
Dictionary definition
HUBBLE, noun. United States astronomer who discovered that (as the universe expands) the speed with which nebulae recede increases with their distance from the observer (1889-1953).
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