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Cosmic Expansion 2023

January 5 , 2024 196 days 295 0
  • Euclid telescope observed that the galaxies belonging to the Perseus Cluster and others move further away.
  • This was showing the expansion of universe.
  • The universe’s expansion makes galaxies move away from each other.
  • The relationship between a galaxy’s speed and distance is governed by “Hubble’s constant”, which is about 43 miles (70 km) per second per Megaparsec.
  • Perseus is one of the most massive structures known in the Universe.
  • It is located ‘just’ 240 million light-years away from Earth and containing thousands of galaxies.

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