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What does Hubble mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Hubble? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. An English surname​ derived from the Norman French given name Hubald.
  2. (astronomy) The astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble.
  3. (astronomy) The Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted auroras near the poles of both Saturn and Jupiter.
Here, Hubble astronomers have uncovered, for the first time, a population of infant stars.
Telescopes on the ground, as well as the Hubble Space Telescope, have also discovered small moons around these planets.
Then Edward Hubble discovered that the nebulae were other galaxies like ours only much further away than was thought possible.
A Hubble rescue mission would have to be prepared for a different orbit, different abort modes, and a different payload.
Hubble can detect objects as faint as thirty-first magnitude, which is comparable to the sensitivity of much larger Earth-based telescopes.

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