COSMIC YARDSTICK Precisely gauging the distance to the galaxy NGC 5584 and other celestial objects helped astronomers obtain the most precise value ever measured for the Hubble constant, an indicator of the present-day expansion rate of the universe. NASA, ESA, A. Riess, L. Macri (Texas A&M Univ.),
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