New Study Shows Universe Still Expanding On Schedule

The Bad Astronomer writes "A century ago, astronomers (including Edwin Hubble) discovered the Universe was expanding. Using the same methods — but this time with observations from an orbiting infrared space telescope — a new study confirms this expansion, and nails the rate with higher precision than done before. If you're curious, the expansion rate found was 74.3 +/- 2.1 kilometers per second per megaparsec — almost precisely in line with previous measurements."

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8 year old's question

[RichardDeVries]

It expands into what?

Re:8 year old's question

[kheldan]

Correction: There is no space and time that we can determine with any certainty outside our physical universe.

Re:Not to be pedantic

[countach]

Well, to be pedantic, its a stretch to say "we have no clue". We can make some pretty damned good guesses.