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Tag Archives: Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble strengthens case for Dark Energy

Urban Astronomer avatarPosted on 15 Mar, 2011 by Allen Versfeld16 May, 2016
epheids in Spiral Galaxy NGC 5584. Source: Hubblesite.org

Researchers using new data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have refined our estimates of the rate at which the Universe is expanding to an uncertainty of only 3%.  This new figure invalidates the idea that our region of space is situated in a vast unusually empty bubble, or void, which has up till now stood as an alternative to the Dark Energy hypothesis. Albert Einstein recognised that the Universe could not be static, based on physics as he … Continue reading →

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