Editor's Note Science & Society

In science, some big risks are worth the rewards

By Elizabeth Quill

- More than 2 years ago

At the end of my previous Editor’s Note (SN: 11/11/17, p. 2), I wrote about one of the great discoveries of the 1920s. By studying distant nebulae, Edwin Hubble found that our galaxy is not alone in the universe. Instead, it is one of an amazing multitude of “island universes.”