Hubble Advanced Camera Back In Business
Date: Saturday, July 15 @ 08:29:07 BST
Topic: Astronomy
After a brief hiatus, the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is back in full operation, NASA announced Thursday. The instrument is now involved in a quest to understand the nature of the universe's most dominant but mysterious constituent: dark energy.
Discovered in 1998, dark energy seems to percolate out of empty space and provides a repulsive force that is causing the universe to expand at an ever-faster rate. More..
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