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Nature 163, 196-198 (5 February 1949) | doi:10.1038/163196a0;

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Stellar Evolution and the Expanding Universe

F. Hoyle

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THEORIES of the expanding universe have all cted in accordance with the follow-been co ing data: (A) The distribution of nebula over the sky is approximetely uniform, the approximation becoming nebulse are used in the compilation of tVe statistics. (B) A relation, discovered by Hubble and Huma-son, exists between the red shift (SX/X), usually denoted by 8, of the whole spectrum of a nebula, and its apparent magnitude m.