News tagged with expansion rate

Hubble rules out one alternative to dark energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have ruled out an alternate theory on the nature of dark energy after recalculating the expansion rate of the universe to unprecedented accuracy.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 92 | with audio podcast

Radio telescopes extend astronomy's best 'yardstick'

Radio astronomers have directly measured the distance to a faraway galaxy, providing a valuable "yardstick" for calibrating large astronomical distances and demonstrating a vital method that could help determine the elusive ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Hubble breaks new ground with discovery of distant exploding star

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow of a star that exploded more than 9 billion years ago. The sighting is the first finding of an ambitious ...

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0