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Just a week before graduation, fate (a.k.a FM) wouldn’t let Rudenstine part Harvard without scoping the skies. Harvard’s expert on galactic distances and movement, Doyle Professor of Cosmology John P. Huchra, graciously offered a few hours of his nighttime to show Rudenstine around the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astronomy, located at 60 Garden Street, just a few minutes walk past the Radcliffe Quad...
This is a breakthrough of astronomical proportions. Whereas for years scientists have had only one Hubble-quality telescope, they will soon have access to more than a dozen. "What's been happening in the telescope game," says John Huchra, a veteran observer and a professor at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "is incredible...
...team, including Professor of Astronomy John P. Huchra, combined information from the telescope and measurements of the universe's acceleration, compiled in part by Professor of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70, for the new estimate...
...Project Team, which includes Huchra, made independent measurements of the relative distance of different galaxies as well as the speed at which they are moving away from the Earth...
...kick in, gunning the expansion, making it faster." Measuring a large Hubble Constant and an apparently low age today, in other words, wouldn't be a reliable indicator of what was going on earlier in the universe's lifetime. Theorists might hate Einstein's abandoned child, but, says John Huchra, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "to an experimentalist it seems no more ad hoc than inflation...