Other folks have, for an extended, laid on their backs and pointed on the starry sky, questioning how a long way those twinkling luminaries are. Measuring cosmic distances has been some extent of clinical interest for similarly lengthy.
The Hubble consistent (H0) has been on the heart of this quest. Named after Edwin Hubble who found out that far-off galaxies transfer clear of us quicker than nearer ones, H0 represents the rate at which a galaxy would transfer clear of us if it have been 1 megaparsec far-off.
