The Space Shuttle Discovery launched one of the most powerful observatories into space on this date in 1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope. Now a household name, few people at that time knew the Missouri connection. The telescope was named for Edwin Hubble, known as the “Father of Modern Cosmology.” Hubble grew up in Marshfield …
An astronomer predicted that a comet was coming and would hit St. Louis. Many people panicked and many left town. Young boys added to the problems by standing on street corners and occasionally yelling, “Here she comes!”
A meteorite weighing just over 1.3 pounds fell on a barn near Baxter in Stone County.
Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born today in Marshfield. Hubble discovered that the universe is expanding as well as ways to measure its speed. He discovered that almost every “star” that had been observed was actually a galaxy containing millions of stars.
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