A periodic audio/video feature from McDonald Observatory showcasing the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment.
Astronomers around the world are racing to devise clever and creative ways to learn the nature of dark energy.
Karl Gebhardt, HETDEX Project Scientist, explains how a McDonald Observatory telescope will look for dark energy.
In 1998, two teams of astronomers discovered that, instead of slowing down, the universe is expanding faster today than it was in earlier epochs.