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New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy

Posted by michael on from the spaced-out dept.

Jim Mansfield writes "With the Hubble space telescope no longer being serviced by NASA, it's good to see one of their hardest working and most famous satellites in the news again. According to their press release on the nature of dark energy, Einstein may have been right after all - and even if he turns out to have been wrong, it seems that dark energy is not going 'to cause an end to the universe any time soon' ... whew, that's a relief." See also a space.com story.

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  1. Re:May I just be the first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Pointing out someone is redundant on slashdot is a tadge redundant in itself, no?

  2. Dark energy by rotciv86 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Could this possibly be the counter force to grvity?

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