Novel Experiment Prepares to Join Dark Energy Hunt
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 10:28
in Astronomy & Space
An experiment is gearing up in Texas to take on one of the universe's biggest mysteries by compiling a three-dimensional map of the early cosmos. The hope is that the survey will help inform astronomers and cosmologists about the nature of dark energy, a mysterious and hypothetical agent thought to constitute nearly three quarters of the universe's mass. [More]