Hubble’s law states that the redshift (recessional velocity) of a galaxy equals its distance from Earth times a constant (called the Hubble constant). American astronomer Edwin Hubble found it from observations of the spectra of distant galaxies. The more distant the galaxy, the higher its redshift. Hubble’s law was the first evidence of the expansion of the universe.
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