Will we be astonished by how little we know now? For the last century we have been trying to understand the universe we live in. New data suggests we got it all wrong.
2030 forecast: dark energy laid bare
Mysterious beauty: The rainbow pattern above shows 60,000 galaxies captured by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, less than 0.1% of the survey's full volume. Glossary
Universe - Everything. Including all of time and space and its contents.
USA - The United States of America is a country in North America. It has a population of 329 million.
Dark energy - An unknown form of energy causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.
Gravity - An invisible force that pulls objects towards each other. Earth's gravity keeps us on the ground and makes things fall. It is less strong on Mars.
Process - A way of doing things.