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A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

There’s a massive, ghostly halo around Earth. You can’t see it. Most people have never heard of it. But it’s there – a loose blanket of hydrogen atoms that stretches far out into space. It starts ...