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How To Measure the Universe

29 May , 2012 by Jason Major

Measuring distance doesn’t sound like a very challenging thing to do — just pick your standard unit of choice and corresponding tool calibrated to it, and see how the numbers add up. Use a meter stick, a tape measure, or perhaps take a drive, and you can get a fairly accurate answer. But in astronomy, […]

blueshift, distance, Measuring the Universe, parallax, redshift, Royal Observatory, scale, Solar System, Venus

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