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New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension (bigthink.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

So: they thought the discrepancy had to do with possible errors in the measurement of Cepheid Variables as standard candles, when extrapolated with the more luminous and usually distant Type Ia Supernovas as standard candles, but JWST just confirmed that previous measurements of Cepheid Variables have in fact been correct and reliable.
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