Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

The most recent measurement of a nearby galaxy cluster is deepening a disagreement about how fast the universe is expanding — ...

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of ...

These are called standard candles because their brightness is well ... Then, by comparing that distance to how fast the galaxy is moving away, they get the expansion rate for that part of the ...

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Observatories like the ... based his distance calculations on a cosmological "standard candle" called Cepheid variables: stars whose brightness ...

And as for his candles: “I can’t stand smoke around the side of a ... create a secure new storeroom and to “raise the property to a better standard, primarily by refreshing the interior design and ...