• dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      I took an undergrad course in stargazing, so I’m basically an expert in… whatever that is…

      Prof was a big spectroscopy nerd, so we mostly focused on that.

      What I gather from this article is that we still don’t know what dark energy is. We haven’t for decades. So the new telescope has failed to enlighten us about a mystery that’s been around longer than half of the users here.

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        4 months ago

        Yes, we still don’t know what dark energy is, but the article doesn’t directly mention that.

        The new telescope has failed to enlighten us

        I would argue the opposite. It’s entire purpose is to enlighten (gather EM data) and its done this to a higher accuracy than Hubble.

        It’s just job is not to explain the measurements. That’s ours.