Color differences could recalibrate cosmic acceleration rate

Two flavors of Type 1a supernovas complicate distance estimates

the M101 galaxy

STAR BRIGHT  Color differences between some nearby supernovas, such as the one shown here (arrow) in this image of the M101 galaxy about 22 million light-years away, and ones farther away could lead to overestimates of how much the cosmic expansion is accelerating.

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The expansion of the universe might not be accelerating quite as fast as researchers thought.