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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Â© A Dictionary of Earth Sciences 1999, originally published by Oxford University Press 1999. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Hubble's law As formulated in 1936 by the American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble (1889–1953) and his colleague Milton Lasell Humason (1891–1972), the distance to a galaxy in light-years is equal to one-hundredth of its red-shift velocity in miles per second.

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