Sentences with phrase «cosmic standard candles»
The predictable luminosity of Type Ia supernovae means that astronomers can use them as cosmic standard candles to measure their distances, making them useful tools in studying the cosmos.
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Studies using type 1a supernovas as «standard candles» to measure how fast the universe expands (the Hubble constant) produce a result in conflict with other data used to infer the cosmic growth rate.
Type Iax supernovae are fainter than their type Ia relatives, which are so reliably bright that we use them as «standard candles» to estimate cosmic distances.