{"id":236685,"date":"2026-05-06T22:24:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/a-new-way-to-read-the-universe-could-sharpen-understanding-of-cosmic-expansion-and-dark-energy"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:24:37","slug":"a-new-way-to-read-the-universe-could-sharpen-understanding-of-cosmic-expansion-and-dark-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/a-new-way-to-read-the-universe-could-sharpen-understanding-of-cosmic-expansion-and-dark-energy","title":{"rendered":"A new way to read the universe could sharpen understanding of cosmic expansion and dark energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-way-to-read-the-universe-could-sharpen-understanding-of-cosmic-expansion-and-dark-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team led by researchers at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) has developed a new method that could significantly improve our understanding of the expansion of the universe and the nature of dark energy.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-026-02842-5\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Astronomy<\/i>, presents a powerful framework called CIGaRS that allows scientists to extract more information from exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae, primarily through imaging rather than costly spectroscopic observations. The results pave the way for making the most of the vast amount of data expected from the next generation of astronomical surveys, especially from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team led by researchers at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) has developed a new method that could significantly improve our understanding of the expansion of the universe and the nature of dark energy. The study, published in Nature Astronomy, presents a powerful framework called CIGaRS that allows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}