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Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard

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$Astronomy Professor Daniel Eisenstein has devised a new method to determine the position of galaxies and is using that to understand how the universe works. Here, Eisenstein looks at Harvard's Great Refractor, installed in 1847 and for 20 years the largest telescope in the country.$

Using galaxies as yardsticks

Astronomy Professor Daniel Eisenstein builds a 3-D map of universe

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DateMarch 5, 2012

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Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard

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Using galaxies as yardsticks

Astronomy Professor Daniel Eisenstein builds a 3-D map of universe