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Hubble's law: a standalone construct

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Cosmology

the proportionality between a galaxy's distance and its recession velocity, the first evidence of cosmic expansion.

In cosmology, Hubble's law refers to the proportionality between a galaxy's distance and its recession velocity, the first evidence of cosmic expansion. This meaning comes from Hubble (1929) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Hubble, E. (1929). A relation between distance and radial velocity among extra-galactic nebulae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 15(3), 168-173. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.15.3.168

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