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Events on Friday 15 March 1929 1
1929Hubble publishes the velocity-distance relationEvidence that the universe is expandingEdwin Hubble published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that galaxies recede at speeds proportional to their distance. The relation, now called Hubble's law, became the foundation of the expanding-universe model in cosmology.