"<p>An artist's concept of the new measurement of the size of the Universe.</p> <p>The gray spheres show the pattern of the ""baryon acoustic oscillations"" from the early Universe. Galaxies today have a slight tendency to align on the spheres -- the alignment is greatly exaggerated in this illustration. By comparing the size of the spheres (white line) to the predicted value, astronomers can determine to 1% accuracy how far away the galaxies are.</p>"
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