Hetdex: The Search For Dark Energy

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A periodic audio/video feature from McDonald Observatory showcasing the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment. (Author: McDonald Observatory)
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Recent episodes from Hetdex: The Search For Dark Energy

  • The Race To Discovery
    Published: Aug 25, 08
    Astronomers around the world are racing to devise clever and creative ways to learn the nature of dark energy.
     
  • Catching A Virus
    Published: Jun 30, 08
    An innovative set of spectrographs will observe thousands of galaxies each night
     
  • Looking For Dark Energy
    Published: Jun 26, 08
    Karl Gebhardt, HETDEX Project Scientist, explains how a McDonald Observatory telescope will look for dark energy.
     
  • The Possibilities
    Published: Jun 16, 08
    When it comes to explaining dark energy, scientists are in the dark.
     
  • Introduction To Hetdex
    Published: Jun 2, 08
    An introduction to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment
     
  • A 'speedy' Discovery
    Published: May 19, 08
    In 1998, two teams of astronomers discovered that, instead of slowing down, the universe is expanding faster today than it was in earlier epochs.
     
  • The Search For Dark Energy
    Published: Apr 14, 08
    An introduction to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX).