HELP PLZ AND TY Select a detail from the text that supports the idea that Nicolaus Copernicus's discoveries needed to occur before the Milky Way could be discovered. Edwin Hubble had access to many powerful telescopes and tools to observe more objects in space.
In the early 1500s, Nicolaus Copernicus was the first to show that Earth was an object orbiting the sun.
In the early 1600s, Galileo Galilei used a basic telescope to show that the Milky Way was made up of countless stars.
William Herschel did not realize that large portions of the galaxy were hidden by gas and dust, so he could not identify the true shape.