Dark Energy

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Dark Energy
Galaxies, Stars, & Black Holes
Goddard Space Flight Center
Missions
Stars
Supernovae
The Universe
Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to study this puzzle in a new way using NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Once it launches by May 2027, astronomers will mine Roman’s wide swaths of images for gravitationally […]
Posted February 7, 2024
Dark Energy
Dark Matter
Euclid
Galaxies
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe and Ices Explorer)
Stellar Evolution
The Big Bang
The Universe
Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe began with a rapid expansion we call the big bang. After this initial expansion, which lasted a fraction of a second, gravity started to slow the universe down. But the cosmos wouldn’t stay this way. Nine billion years after the universe began, its expansion started to speed up, […]
Posted February 5, 2024
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