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Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation
October 4, 2012 at 8:33 pm
A team of astronomers, using NASA's Spitzer space telescope has confirmed cosmological inflation and has refined the error range of acceleration to 74.3 +/- 2.1 km/megaparsec (the Hubble constant).

NASA Wrote:Unlike NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which views the cosmos in visible light, Spitzer took advantage of long-wavelength infrared light to make its new measurement. It improves by a factor of 3 on a similar, seminal study from the Hubble telescope and brings the uncertainty down to 3 percent, a giant leap in accuracy for cosmological measurements. The newly refined value for the Hubble constant is 74.3 plus or minus 2.1 kilometers per second per megaparsec. A megaparsec is roughly 3 million light-years. (*)

(*) A megaparsec is 3.26 light-years.
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Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Jackalope - October 4, 2012 at 8:33 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Polaris - October 4, 2012 at 8:37 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Jackalope - October 4, 2012 at 8:42 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Polaris - October 4, 2012 at 9:08 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Jackalope - October 4, 2012 at 9:51 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Cyberman - October 4, 2012 at 8:45 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Jackalope - October 4, 2012 at 9:00 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Cyberman - October 4, 2012 at 9:19 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Polaris - October 4, 2012 at 9:56 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Tino - October 5, 2012 at 3:18 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Jackalope - October 5, 2012 at 3:21 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by pgrimes15 - October 5, 2012 at 12:17 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by LastPoet - October 5, 2012 at 4:07 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by LastPoet - October 5, 2012 at 4:17 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by LastPoet - October 5, 2012 at 4:30 pm
RE: Spitzer confirms cosmological inflation - by Cyberman - October 6, 2012 at 1:00 pm

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