Washington, April 11 (IANS): Applying a technique that can yield new insight into dark energy in space, astronomers can now precisely measure the distance of stars up to 10,000 light-years away - 10 times farther than previously possible. Astronomers used the 24-year-old NASA’s Hubble space telescope by employing a technique called spatial scanning that improves Hubble’s accuracy for precision distance measurements 10 times farther into our galaxy. “This new capability is expected to yield new insight into the nature of dark energy, a mysterious component of space that is pushing the universe apart at an ever-faster rate,” explained Noble laureate Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland.
