A scale replica of the Hubble Space Telescope honors Marshfield native Edwin Hubble. Hubble became one of the most famous astronomers of the 20th century, contributing to our understanding of the expansion of the universe and leading to our knowledge of the Big Bang. NASA honored his accomplishments by naming the Hubble Deep Space telescope after this Missouri native. Hubble was born on November 20, 1889 In the 1920s, while working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, Hubble discovered the existence of countless galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. In studying the…
