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Edward Wright
This page contains an explanation of the the balloon analogy of the expansion of the universe and a helpful animation to show what happens to galaxies and photons of light as the universe expands. This is part of a larger tutorial about cosmology.
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![]() <a href="https://www.compadre.org/informal/items/detail.cfm?ID=10659">Wright, Edward. Balloon Analogy in Cosmology. May 8, 1998.</a>
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![]() Wright, E. (1998, May 8). Balloon Analogy in Cosmology. Retrieved July 11, 2025, from http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/balloon0.html
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Year = {1998}
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