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19 May 2011

Images for "Dark Energy is real"

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Cosmic wrestling match

In this artist's conception, dark energy is represented by the purple grid
above, and gravity by the green grid below. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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The origin of the clustering in the distribution of galaxies

Time goes from top to bottom. The "bullseyes" show where there have been two sources of pressure waves in the early universe, the waves travelling outwards like the ripples on a pond. Galaxies prefer to grow at the centre and edge of the bullseye. Their preferred separation is the radius of the bullseye (the scale bar). Image: Sam Moorefield, Swinburne University.

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The 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope

Photo: Fred Kamphues

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The 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope

Photo: Fred Kamphues

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The 3.9-m Anglo-Australian Telescope

Photo: Fred Kamphues

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The dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, NSW, Australia

Photo: Fred Kamphues

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The dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, NSW, Australia

Photo: Fred Kamphues

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AAO researcher contact

Professor Matthew Colless, Director, Anglo-Australian Observatory (Sydney, Australia)
Office: +61-2-9372-4854
Mob: +61-431-898-345
director@aao.gov.au

 

Publications

The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: testing the cosmological model with baryon acoustic oscillations at z = 0.6. Chris Blake, Tamara Davis, Gregory B. Poole et al [26 authors]. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press.
Online at http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2862


The WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey: the growth rate of cosmic structure since redshift z = 0.9. Chris Blake, Sarah Brough, Matthew Colless et al [25 authors]. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press.
Online at http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2948