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What is the general relationship between a galaxy's distance from earth and its speed?

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Hubble's law is the observation in the physical cosmology that states that the galaxies are moving away from the Earth at a speed proportional to the distance.

The general relation is given as,


v=H_0D

Here,

• v is the speed, typically expressed in km/s.

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• H_0 is the Hubble's constant.

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• D is the distance from the galaxy to the observer, which changes over time.

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