{"id":785814,"date":"2024-07-16T02:54:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T07:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785814"},"modified":"2024-07-16T02:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T07:54:50","slug":"dark-energy-is-everywhere-in-space-and-expanding-our-universe-short-wave-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=785814","title":{"rendered":"Dark energy is everywhere in space and expanding our universe : Short Wave : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is set to launch in 2027. This innovative telescope is designed to investigate long-standing astronomical mysteries, such as dark energy, the force behind the universe’s expansion.
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NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is set to launch in 2027. This innovative telescope is designed to investigate long-standing astronomical mysteries, such as dark energy, the force behind the universe’s expansion.<\/p>\n

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The universe \u2014 everything in existence \u2014 is expanding every second! It’s only been about a hundred years that humanity has known this, too \u2014 that most galaxies are traveling away from us and the universe is expanding. Just a few decades ago, in the late 1990s, scientists started to notice another peculiar thing: The expansion of the universe is speeding up<\/em> over time. It’s like an explosion where the debris gets faster instead of slowing down. The mysterious force pushing the universe outward faster and faster was named dark energy. Cosmologist Brian Nord joins host Regina G. Barber in a conversation that talks about what dark energy could be and what it implies about the end of our universe. <\/p>\n