When anyone talks about The Big Bang Cosmology or The Expanding Universe, the first name that comes to one's mind is Edwin Hubble. He is called the Father of the Big Bang.

But the lesser known fact is that the idea of the expanding universe was first proposed by Georges Lemaitre in 1927. 

Here is complete information about Georges Lemaitre and the idea of the Expanding Universe on the American Museu

Pauline gave a public lecture last week on the 2011 Nobel Prize-winning work of Perlmutter, Schmidt, and Riess, for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe.

Did you miss it; here's a fun live-comic narrated by physicist Sean Carroll explaining how that work was done, and briefly what it implies about the nature of our universe's constituency.