Hubble Tension: NASA’s James Webb Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope will find out the truth about the universe’s expansion rate

Scientists believe our universe is expanding rapidly, but there’s a problem. There is a puzzle to be solved called the Hubble Tension, which asserts that the universe is currently expanding faster than astronomers expected. So to understand the universe’s expansion rate, NASA’s James Webb Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope teamed up to look for inconsistencies in measurements. The telescope’s high-resolution data will help researchers study this puzzle and figure out what’s going on in our universe. Learn how cosmologists plan to resolve these errors and bring accuracy.

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According to NASA ReportThe Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the current rate of expansion of the universe. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has joined the team to bring accurate measurements and avoid any errors in the process. Earlier, it was speculated that Hubble’s measurements of the expansion rate were accurate. However, scientists believe that as they delve deeper into the universe, they may encounter measurement errors. “We have now spanned the entire range of Hubble observations, and we can rule out measurement errors as the cause of Hubble tension with a high degree of confidence,” said physicist Adam Reese of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

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Scientists have been using a variety of methods to measure relative distances in the universe, known as the cosmic distance ladder. Scientists study different objects, which helps them measure the expansion rate of the universe. However, the method may have some inaccuracies, but scientists believe that the James Webb Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope combined will be very useful in understanding our universe. “The combination of Webb and Hubble gives us the best of both worlds,” Reese said. “We found that as we climb further along the cosmic distance ladder, Hubble measurements remain reliable.”

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