hey all, please check out new paper led by JHU grad student Sean Li on JWST and the distance scale! in short, the JWST TRGB and HST (and JWST) Cepheid distance scales are in near-perfect agreement, and the Hubble tension absolutely persists. arxiv.org/abs/2408.00065 🔭🧪

really, we see no evidence for disagreement between the two methods. there's some chatter recently about other, in-progress work, but here's a paper, with photometry to be made public upon publication.