Multiple Choice
The new instrument that made it possible for Edwin Hubble to demonstrate the existence of other galaxies in the early 1920's was:
A) the Hubble Space Telescope (that's why we named it after Hubble!)
B) the 300-ft radio telescope in West Virginia
C) a kind of electronic detector called a CCD
D) the 100-inch reflector on Mount Wilson
E) an infra-red telescope carried aboard one of the early airplane flights by the Wright Brothers
Section 26.2: Types of Galaxies
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