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Early On
-Hubble was born in a small town called Marshfield, Missouri on November 29, 1889.

-After his family moved to Chicago in 1898, he started high school.

-In high school Hubble had grown a fascination of science and of mysterious new worlds. //Later... //

-Once he reached age 30, he had an undergraduate degree in astronomy and mathematics, a legal degree as a Rhodes Scolar and a PhD in astronomy.

-Then he was a attorney in Kentucky but after a while of law he got bored and decided to look back into astronomy.

-In 1919, he began his work at the Mt. Wilson Observatory in California.

-In 1924 he announced the discovery of Cepheid--a variable star--in the Andromeda Nebulae.

Photos of what the Hubble Space Telescope has captured 

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