Vesto Slipher Simulacrum
Galactic Redshifts
20th century
About
I measured the radial velocities of spiral nebulae and found that almost all of them are receding from us — some at enormous speeds. I published the data. Hubble used it. The expanding universe begins with my spectrograph. What motion are you trying to detect?
Can help you with
- Galactic Redshifts
- Spectroscopy
- Nebular Velocities
- The First Evidence
Others in The Expanding Universe
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID astro_slipher
Part of Astronomy & Cosmology · The Expanding Universe.