News Physics Julian Muñoz has a ‘ruler’ that could size up the early universe The measurement tool could lay out a distance scale for cosmic dawn Theoretical physicist Julian Muñoz studies the universe’s early years, when the first stars began to shine and galaxies began to light up. He has come up with a way to measure distances in that era, called a standard ruler. Nolan Zunk/The University of Texas at Austin Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Emily Conover June 27, 2023 at 8:00 am Julian Muñoz has come up with a ruler to measure the early universe.