Labels:book | bulletin board | reckoner OCR: Hubble contributed to another crucial part of the picture He counted the numbei Of visible galaxies in different directions in the sky and found that they appear to be rather uniformly distributed The value of Hubble's constant seemed to be the same in all directions necessary consequence of uniform expansion Modern surveys confirm the fundamental tenet that the universe is homogeneous on large scales Although maps of the distribution of the nearby galaxies display clumpiness, deeper surveys reveal considerable uniformity The Milky Way, for instance resides in a knot of two dozen galaxies: these in turn are part of a complex of galaxies that protrudes from the so -called local supercluster. The hierarchy of clustering has been tracec up to dimensions of about 500 million light-years. The f ...
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