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Webb telescope helps refine Hubble constant, suggesting resolution to long-standing expansion rate debate

Scientists have made a new calculation of the speed at which the universe is expanding, using the data taken by the powerful new James Webb Space Telescope on multiple galaxies. Webb’s image of one such galaxy, known as NGC 1365. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Janice Lee (NOIRLab), Alyssa Pagan (STScI) For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the universe. The universe expands over time, but how fast it's expanding has seemed to ...

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