World-renowned astronomer and prize-winning professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, Alex Filippenko, explores some of the mysteries of the universe at a special lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Filippenko discusses observations of very distant exploding starts called super-novae that provide intriguing evidence that the expansion of the universe is now speeding up. Over the largest scales of space, the universe seems to be dominated by a repulsive "dark energy" of unknown origin, stretching the very fabric of space itself faster and faster with time. (#13184)
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Earth Sciences
Focus on Physical Science
K-12 Educational Standards
Standards for Grade(s): 8
Focus on Physical Science
Earth in the Solar System
Standards for Grade(s): 9-12
Earth Sciences
EarthÆs Place in the Universe
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