Astronomers Use Hubble To Refine the Hubble Constant

Credit: NASA/ESA/A. FEILD (STSCI)
Astronomers using two instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope have refined the value for the Hubble Constant to within an error margin of less than 5%, pointing the way to a better understanding of the force astrophysicists call “dark energy.” A team headed by Adam Riess of the Space Telescope...

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