"VAR!" 100 years ago tonight, Edwin Hubble found a star that revealed the vastness of the Universe - Daily Kos
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How big is the Universe? Humanity made it all the way into the 1920s having no idea. Many people at that time thought that the Milky Way was the entire Universe. Yes, big, but not crazy big. Others thought that maybe those spirals and smudges we could...