University of Texas: HETDEX Project on Track to Probe Dark Energy
December 02, 2020
December 02, 2020
FORT DAVIS, Texas, Dec. 2 (TNSRes) -- The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory issued the following news release on Dec. 1:
Three years into its quest to reveal the nature of dark energy, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is on track to complete the largest map of the cosmos ever. The team will create a three-dimensional map of 2.5 million galaxies that will help astronomers understand how and why the expansion of the universe is speedin . . .
Three years into its quest to reveal the nature of dark energy, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is on track to complete the largest map of the cosmos ever. The team will create a three-dimensional map of 2.5 million galaxies that will help astronomers understand how and why the expansion of the universe is speedin . . .