'Eye of Sauron' provides new way of measuring distances to galaxies
Southampton, UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2014 - A team of scientists, led by Dr Sebastian Hoenig from the University of Southampton, have developed a new way of measuring precise distances to galaxies tens of millions of light years away, using the W. M. Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The method is similar to what land surveyors use on earth, by measuring the physical and angular, or 'apparent', size of a stand ... more

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