NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, is named after Edwin Powell Hubble, a trailblazing astronomer whose work reshaped modern cosmology, including the discovery of the universe’s expansion. BulletsIn Edwin Hubble was born on November 20, 1889, in Marshfield, Missouri. Initially pursued law but switched to astronomy, earning a Ph.D. in 1914. Discovered the universe’s



