Technology Has Influenced Our

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analysis to suggest an initial starting point to the universe. He used a ground-based telescope to investigate the masses of stars called nebulae to help with proving his theories. In the twenties some believed that we were all part of one huge galaxy and still others believed that the possibility of a whole world of galaxies outside our own was conceivable. What Edwin Hubble observed with his telescope led him to theorize that galaxies all began from a very densely compacted matter that exploded. In 1929 he professed we were in a universe that was a billion light years across and that every part was moving away from every other part at speeds of 100 million miles an hour. These observations gave birth to the Big Bang theory and was an incredible feat for a time that had only inefficient telescopes and astronomical instruments.
In the early part of the 1960's two scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were looking for the remnants that would inevitably be left ...

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"proved" and "Science" in the same sentence was still an oxymoron. There still seems to be some "missing mass" making up what some theorize to be 90% of all matter in the universe. Technology at this point is unable to explain that. Any theory of galaxy formation needs to provide an answer to other questions. What is the structure that makes up the "walls" that are separated by "voids"found in the swirling pools of stars? What caused the "clumpiness" of the universe?

Named after Edwin Hubble in 1990 the Hubble telescope was sent into the atmosphere to do what was previously impossible due to limited clarity and resolution. The Hubble telescope has advanced science by vast ...

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