Show Notes: Cosmology 6

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SNAP one of three Joint Dark Energy Missions under consideration by NASA

Logo for the Dark Energy Survey collaboration

Release Date: May 16, 2007 MP3 Link

Dr. Josh Frieman is a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago and associated with Fermilab's Theoretical Astrophysics Group and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. He talks to us about the big question in cosmology: dark energy, including projects to look for it.

• Web page at University of Chicago
• The Dark Energy Survey
• Joint Dark Energy Mission via NASA
• LSST
• The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos by Dr. Robert Kirscner
• Baryon Acoustic Oscillations via LSST