Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

What scientist is credited with the discovery that there are galaxies beyond our Milky Way

  1. Edwin Hubble

  2. Isaac Newton

  3. Copernicus

  4. Galileo
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Explanation

Edwin Hubble provided the first observational evidence that there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way in the 1920s by showing that spiral nebulae were actually distant galaxies, not nearby gas clouds.

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