{"id":796450,"date":"2025-06-03T15:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796450"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:44:05","slug":"why-its-taking-a-century-to-pin-down-the-speed-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=796450","title":{"rendered":"Why it&#8217;s taking a century to pin down the speed of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">This Hubble Space Telescope image is cluttered with myriad galaxies<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA, ESA, B. Sunnquist, J. Mack, J. Lotz (STScI), HFF Team<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe. You can\u00a0sign up for Lost in Space-Time here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you look up on a clear night, chances are you\u2019ll be able to identify the constellation Orion, most likely from the line of three stars that form its belt. These are, from left\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2482594-why-its-taking-a-century-to-pin-down-the-speed-of-the-universe\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Hubble Space Telescope image is cluttered with myriad galaxies NASA, ESA, B. Sunnquist, J. Mack, J. Lotz (STScI), HFF Team The following is an extract from our Lost in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}