{"id":98287,"date":"2019-11-08T19:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/scientists-further-refine-how-quickly-the-universe-is-expanding"},"modified":"2019-11-08T19:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T03:02:32","slug":"scientists-further-refine-how-quickly-the-universe-is-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/scientists-further-refine-how-quickly-the-universe-is-expanding","title":{"rendered":"Scientists further refine how quickly the universe is expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-further-refine-how-quickly-the-universe-is-expanding2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of Clemson University astrophysicists has added a novel approach to quantifying one of the most fundamental laws of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published Friday, Nov. 8, in <i>The <i>Astrophysical Journal<\/i><\/i>, Clemson scientists Marco Ajello, Abhishek Desai, Lea Marcotulli and Dieter Hartmann have collaborated with six other scientists around the world to devise a new measurement of the Hubble Constant, the unit of measure used to describe the rate of expansion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCosmology is about understanding the evolution of our universe\u2014how it evolved in the past, what it is doing now and what will happen in the future,\u201d said Ajello, an associate professor in the College of <i>Science<\/i>\u2019s department of physics and astronomy. \u201cOur knowledge rests on a number of parameters\u2014including the Hubble Constant\u2014that we strive to measure as precisely as possible. In this paper, our team analyzed data obtained from both orbiting and ground-based telescopes to come up with one of the newest measurements yet of how quickly the universe is expanding.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of Clemson University astrophysicists has added a novel approach to quantifying one of the most fundamental laws of the universe. In a paper published Friday, Nov. 8, in The Astrophysical Journal, Clemson scientists Marco Ajello, Abhishek Desai, Lea Marcotulli and Dieter Hartmann have collaborated with six other scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98287","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}