A team of scientists headed by Adam Riess, a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a NASA release that they have new evidence which reinforce the idea that the Universe you and I live in, is expanding.
"Riess's work gives new evidence that the universe is in fact expanding at an increasing rate because it is filled with a dark energy that works in opposition to gravity. Dark energy is a type of energy that astronomers believe permeates all space." To read more about this situation please click on the following link (which is also the source of the infomation quoted in this paragraph):
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/15/tech-hubble-universe-expansion.html
To gain a better understanding of this idea that the Universe is expanding I recommend you visit the following website:
http://www.suite101.com/content/the-expansion-of-the-universe-a40639
and then watch the video at the following website:
http://science.discovery.com/videos/100-greatest-discoveries-shorts-expanding-universe.html
Source of image:http://orgs.usd.edu/esci/age/content/current_scientific_clocks/expansion_of_universe.html
