Science & Technology

Universe Expanding Even Faster Than Scientists Thought

It's a great big universe!

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How fast is our universe expanding? Over the decades, there have been different estimates used and heated debates over those approximations, but now data from the Spitzer Space Telescope have provided the most precise measurement yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart.

The result? The universe is getting bigger a little bit faster than previously thought.