The article I read was “Best Way to Measure Dark Energy Just Got Better” the article talked about a new way to measure the speed of which dark matter is pushing a galaxy away from use. They got new equipment to measures the red and blue shift of type 1a supernovas. They saw the color of the super nova and compared it to some constant and determined the speed the galaxies are moving away from us.
I believe that this is really important because we know that there is some other force accelerating the speed that the planets moving from each other. We know extremely little about dark energy so I think this is really cool because we can see the effects of dark energy even tho we can’t see it.
After hearing your presentation today it is really cool to read this with the idea of space expanding between galaxies already in my head.
ReplyDeleteI read a Article similar to this and it was talking about how the Hubble telescope just got a new camera put on to it and how it is using the ability to measure the speed of dark energy to be able to actually show that our universe is getting bigger.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it is pretty cool that we know so little about dark energy and now we are learning about it and we can see the effects of that it can do. I wonder what it will be like in a few years from now. Who knows what we can see and know then :)
How long, or if at all, do think it will take before we can undserstand dark enrgy enough to link it to the expansion of the universe? I after earing your presentation I feel that dark energy may be the key to unlocking most of the misterys of are universe.
ReplyDeleteI love how little anyone really knows about dark matter and how crucial it is to understanding movement and expansion of the universe. This is an incredible new piece of the puzzle: more accurately measuring dark matter!! So cool.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds cool, do you have the link to the article, I'd love to read it. Thanks for informing us on this, and I also loved the presentation.
ReplyDeleteSo what exactly does it entail to measure dark energy? Does this mean to find out how much there is? I would like to know a little more about how supernovas relate to dark energy because I don't really understand the connection..
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