* Astronomy

Cosmologist Josh Frieman to present June 9 lecture on 'The Dark Universe'

Josh Frieman, director of the international Dark Energy Survey collaboration, will kick off a new lecture series on current astrophysics with a talk on "The Dark Universe" at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 9 at the Adler Planetarium, 1300 S. Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
Over the last decade, cosmologists have discovered that only 4 percent of the universe is made of ordinary matter - the atoms and molecules that form stars, planets and people. The other 96 percent is dark, existing in a form totally unlike anything scientists have ever encountered.
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