The Dark Energy Survey has begun its second year of unravelling the mysterious, unknown stuff that makes up 68.3% of the universe. Mapping the southern sky using the Dark Energy Camera, a 570-megapixel imaging device attached to a telescope in Chile, the survey completed its first year of survey just recently. The results on its main mission, dark energy, will probably take a year, according to a Fermilab press release. Again, some six billion years ago, the universe started to speed up again, with scientists suspecting this was due to dark energy which acted against gravity.
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