HETDEX: The Search for Dark Energy
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A periodic audio/video feature from McDonald Observatory showcasing the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment.

The Race to Discovery

Astronomers around the world are racing to devise clever and creative ways to learn the nature of dark energy.
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Looking for Dark Energy

Karl Gebhardt, HETDEX Project Scientist, explains how a McDonald Observatory telescope will look for dark energy.
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A 'Speedy' Discovery

In 1998, two teams of astronomers discovered that, instead of slowing down, the universe is expanding faster today than it was in earlier epochs.
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