New Observational Astronomy Distance RecordAstronomers have used new capabilities of the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to open a whole new realm of research ...

How do we get distances in astronomy if we can't bounce radar off of objects? How exactly do parallax and Cepheid variables help?

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For the first time, an eclipsing binary has revealed the precise distance to the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), say astronomers in Spain, America, and Scotland. The distance is in excellent agreement ...

Astronomy is weird. Everything we study is really, really far away. So far away really, that for most of history we didn’t know how far away they were.

A worldwide network of radio telescopes measured the distance to the famous star cluster the Pleiades to an accuracy within 1 percent. The result resolved a controversy raised by a satellite's ...

A newmethod for measuring cosmic distances could pinpoint objects in the universe upto 300 million light-years away and beyond. Thejust-realized technique was announced today at a meeting of the ...