It gets its name from UChicago alum Edwin Hubble, who was first to calculate the constant from his measurements of stars in 1929. Despite nearly a hundred years of astronomical measurements and ...

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have proposed a new method to measure the Hubble constant that could help resolve ...

Or, more precisely, astronomers have used multiple methods of estimating the Hubble constant, and the different ... Hubble was able to calculate the distance of the Cepheids by comparing their ...

Since the work of Henrietta Leavitt had made it possible to calculate the distance to Cepheids ... he saw that galaxies were moving away from each other at a rate constant to the distance between them ...

Birthed from the minds of astronomers Edwin Hubble and Milton Humason, the Hubble constant has long been our closest attempt at understanding the universe’s rate of expansion. However ...

The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to calculate the distance ... now called Hubble's constant. The numbers were not exactly right ...

Or, more precisely, astronomers have used multiple methods of estimating the Hubble constant, and the different ... Hubble was able to calculate the distance of the Cepheids by comparing their ...

Since the work of Henrietta Leavitt had made it possible to calculate the distance ... away from each other at a rate constant to the distance between them (Hubble's Law). The further away they ...