Edwin Hubble, working out of the University of Chicago, looked through one of the most powerful telescopes of his time. What he saw would eventually become the most significant astronomical find of the century and would come to parallel the awakening of an isolated people in his own country. It would confirm what for generations had been whispered of but dismissed as impossible. It occurred near the start of a long pilgrimage of Americans seeking to escape their own harsh, known world. Hubble identified a star that was far, far away and was not the same sun that fed life on Earth. It was
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