... , p. 129). In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that galaxies get redder, because they are moving away from or Milky Way Galaxy. Hubble's Constant is the term used to describe the distance scale of the universe (Smith, pp. 28-34). In May 1999 a Hubble project team finally decided on ... the correct Hubble's Constant after measuring distances between different galaxies. They arrived at a figure of seventy kilometer per second per megaparsec (http://hubble.stsci.edu/discoveries/10th/ ... our_universe/in-depth/science.shtml/). This is much less than Hubble's original determined constant (Smith,...

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