Darkish power is in all places in house and increasing our universe : Quick Wave : NPR

NASA’s Large Discipline Infrared Survey Telescope is ready to launch in 2027. This modern telescope is designed to research long-standing astronomical mysteries, equivalent to darkish power, the drive behind the universe’s growth.

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NASA’s Large Discipline Infrared Survey Telescope is ready to launch in 2027. This modern telescope is designed to research long-standing astronomical mysteries, equivalent to darkish power, the drive behind the universe’s growth.

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The universe — every thing in existence — is increasing each second! It is solely been a few hundred years that humanity has recognized this, too — that almost all galaxies are touring away from us and the universe is increasing. Only a few many years in the past, within the late Nineteen Nineties, scientists began to note one other peculiar factor: The growth of the universe is rushing up over time. It is like an explosion the place the particles will get sooner as an alternative of slowing down. The mysterious drive pushing the universe outward sooner and sooner was named darkish power. Cosmologist Brian Nord joins host Regina G. Barber in a dialog that talks about what darkish power may very well be and what it implies concerning the finish of our universe.

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