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megaparsec

American  
[meg-uh-pahr-sek] / ˈmɛg əˌpɑr sɛk /

noun

Astronomy.
  1. one million parsecs.


megaparsec Scientific  
/ mĕg′ə-pär′sĕk /
  1. One million parsecs.


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Their findings, published on April 10 in Astronomy & Astrophysics, place the Hubble constant at 73.50 ± 0.81 kilometers per second per megaparsec, achieving a precision slightly better than 1%.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026

The universe is still expanding, at a rate of 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec, a metric known as Hubble's constant.

From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2023

In their analysis, H0 comes out to be 73.04 ± 1.04 kilometers per second per megaparsec.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 18, 2022

We determine the Hubble constant to be about 70 kilometres per second per megaparsec.

From Nature ● Oct. 15, 2017

Thus when astronomers refer to a Hubble constant of 50, what they really mean is "50 kilometers per second per megaparsec."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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