Research Paper on:
Hubble Constant Size and the Hubble Space Telescope

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Earth were hopelessly out of focus, the entire project has been wrought with divisiveness and controversy. There are those who have thought that funding for the Hubble was the astronomical  equivalent of throwing money down a (black) hole. Others believed that the information the telescope could transmit would be invaluable in understanding the universe and its properties. However, one question  remains regardless of how any single scientist, researcher, astronomer, or politician feels about the overall project -- that is the controversy about the size of the Hubble constant, and the  size of the universe. The Hubble constant represents the expansion rate of the universe, which is used to calculate the age of the universe. The Nature of the Controversy  At the core of the controversy is the seemingly simple question of "how old is the universe?" Cowan (1994) points out that even after years of acrimonious dispute "  ... astronomers still dont know the answer. Some believe the universe is 10 billion years old, others argue that its closer to 20 billion. At the center of the controversy  lies a number that has obsessed astronomers for decades -- the Hubble constant" (pp. 232). The point is that nobody can actually clinch the final size of the constant and,  thus, use that constant as an accurate framework for making final calculations. The following quote from Cowans article may be too lengthy for the student working on this project to  include in its entirety, however, it clearly outlines the issue succinctly and can serve as the basis from which to make further determinations: "Based on conflicting sets of  observations and personal prejudices, two camps have sprung up since the 1970s. Several groups of researchers, using different measurement methods, favor a high value for the Hubble constant. This suggests