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Dark Energy Detected in Young Universe

United States · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2006

Adam Guy Riess2006

Hubble Space Telescope · Science / Astronomy

Riess uses distant Hubble supernovae to trace acceleration farther back in time and strengthen evidence that dark energy behaves approximately like a cosmological constant.

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Adam Guy Riess

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