Expansion of the Universe Theory in Quran confirmed

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Expansion of the Universe Theory in Quran

actually it was space expansion revealed in the Quran 1,411 years before NASA announced its' completed efforts to measure precise distance to far-flung galaxies...

Quran Chapter 51:47 We constructed the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it.


NASA Science News home Hubble Measures the Expanding Universe
Latest results from the Hubble Space Telescope pin down the age of the Universe
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/head...t25may99_1.htm



FROM A NASA HQ PRESS RELEASE


May 25, 1999: The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project Team today announced that it has completed efforts to measure precise distances to far- flung galaxies, an essential ingredient needed to determine the age, size and fate of the universe.

Right: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) view of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4603, the most distant galaxy in which a special class of pulsating stars called Cepheid variables have been found. Researchers found 36-50 Cepheids and used their observed properties to securely determine the distance to NGC 4603. Observations of distant Cepheids such as those in NGC 4603 also help astronomers to precisely measure the expansion rate of the Universe (more information).

"Before Hubble, astronomers could not decide if the universe was 10 billion or 20 billion years old," said team leader Wendy Freedman of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "The size scale of the universe had a range so vast that it didn't allow astronomers to confront with any certainty many of the most basic questions about the origin and eventual fate of the cosmos. After all these years, we are finally entering an era of precision cosmology. Now we can more reliably address the broader picture of the universe's origin, evolution and destiny."

The team's precise measurements are the key to learning about the universe's rate of expansion, called Hubble's constant. Measuring Hubble's constant was one of the three major goals for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope when it was launched in 1990.


For the past 70 years astronomers have sought a precise measurement of Hubble's constant, ever since astronomer Edwin Hubble realized that galaxies were rushing away from each other at a rate proportional to their distance, i.e. the farther away, the faster the recession. For many years, right up until the launch of the Hubble telescope -- the range of measured values for the expansion rate was from 50 to 100 kilometers per second per megaparsec (a megaparsec, or mpc, is 3.26 million light years).

The team measured the Hubble Constant to be 70 km/sec/mpc, with an uncertainty of 10 percent. This means that a galaxy appears to be moving 160,000 miles per hour faster for every 3.3 million light-years away from Earth.




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Quran chapter 59:21 If we revealed this Quran to a mountain, you would see it trembling, crumbing, out of reverence for GOD. We cite these examples for the people, that they may reflect.

Quran 59:22 He is the One GOD; there is not other god besides Him.

Quran 59:24 He is the One GOD; the Creator, the Initiator, the Designer.

Quran 80:17 Woe to the human being; he is so unappreciative! What did He create him from? From a tiny drop, He creates him and designs him. Then He points out the path for him. Then He puts him to death, and into the grave.

Quran 80:22 When He wills, He resurrects him.

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