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On this day in 1917 – November 2nd – the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson saw first light. It was the largest telescope in the world for over thirty years.

Using observations he made on the telescope in 1922–1923, Edwin Hubble produced two fundamental results that changed the scientific view of the Universe.

Mona Evans
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