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Huchra and his colleagues conclude that astronomers came up with an incorrect value for Hubble's Constant because they limited their observations to relatively nearby clusters of galaxies--those less than 70 million light years away...
...power of the oil companies beyond economic consideration to reckon with the threat that their vast economic power poses to a fair distribution of political power. He has long favored public funding of Congressional elections. (In 1978, oil industry PACs, oil company directors, executives and lawyers contributed $1.3 million to 34 senators, more than $40,000 for each one. And the U.S. News and World Report estimates that the oil lobby spends up to $75 million a year in Washington...
Last spring, Kennedy introduced legislation prohibiting the 16 largest oil companies from acquiring any company with assets of more than $100 million. And he has also correctly pointed out that the hundreds of billions the oil companies reap from decontrol will tighten their political squeeze on Congress and the nation's energy future...
...clusters outside our supercluster--as far as 200 million light years away--Huchra determined a value for Hubble's Constant twice as large...
...other words, our galaxy is speeding toward Virgo at about 200 million kilometers per hour. This previously undetected motion was not taken into account in earlier calculations of Hubble's Constant...