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Accelerating expansion of the universe, an Uncommon card
Observations show that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, such that the velocity at which a distant galaxy recedes from the observer is continuously increasing with time.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 149
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 59,000
Power 149 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The accelerated expansion of the universe was discovered in 1998 by two independent projects, the Supernova Cosmology Project and the High-Z Supernova Search Team, which used distant type Ia supernovae to measure the acceleration.
- The idea was that as type Ia supernovae have almost the same intrinsic brightness, and since objects that are further away appear dimmer, the observed brightness of these supernovae can be used to measure the distance to them.
- The distance can then be compared to the supernovae's cosmological redshift, which measures how much the universe has expanded since the supernova occurred, the Hubble law established that the further away an object is, the faster it is receding.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Accelerating expansion of the universe (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA / WMAP Science Team, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
