He went to Queen's College at Oxford, England.Īt Oxford, Hubble studied law. Instead, he decided to continue his studies. Several people urged him to train for the world heavyweight boxing championship after college. He was a member of the University of Chicago championship basketball team in nineteen-oh-nine. Then he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois. He spent his early years in the state of Kentucky. Many of them are using the Hubble Space Telescope that is named after him.Įdwin Powell Hubble was born in eighteen eighty-nine in Marshfield, Missouri. Today, other astronomers continue the work he began. Edwin Hubble made his most important discoveries in the nineteen twenties. He changed our ideas about the universe and how it developed. Today, Richard Rael and Tony Riggs tell the story of American astronomer Edwin Hubble. EXPLORATIONS - a program in Special English by the Voice of America.
