Monday, October 11, 2010
The Cosmic Distance Ladder
How do we know the distance to objects that are really, really far away, like planets, stars and galaxies? Astronomers use a cosmic distance ladder to correlate different kinds of evidence about distances. Mathematician Terence Tao explains the cosmic distance ladder in a set of slides with plenty of nice graphics.
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