Hubble's law, also known as the Hubble–Lemaître law, is the observation in physical cosmology that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance. In other words, the farther they are, the faster they are moving away. For this purpose, the recessional velocity of a galaxy is typically determined by measuring redshift, a shift in the light it emits toward the red end of the visible light spectrum. The discovery of Hubble's law is attributed to work published by Edwin Hubble in 1929.