How far away are the most distant objects in the Universe? How has the Universe expanded over the course of its history? And therefore, how big and how old is the Universe since the Big Bang? Through ...
The cosmic distance ladder is the world’s longest ruler, built to measure the universe. Since the time of the ancient Greeks, scientists have been constructing a cosmic measuring tape to measure the ...
Alex Hall receives funding from The Royal Society. It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of the measurements, and ...
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How astronomers measure distance without travelling anywhere
It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck […] ...
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