The dark side of Space
Resolving the mysteries of the universe is one of the objective of ESA Space science missions.
One big mystery is represented by what can be called the dark side of space: pitch blackness which is indeed the dominating component of our universe, made up of dark energy, dark matter and the famous black holes.
Thanks to the observations of different telescopes like ESA XMM Newton or Hubble astronomers now have a better understanding of these phenomenae.. and soon the ESA Planck observatory will complement these views on the invisible.
For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a PDF file under : http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS64200.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under : http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mplo/Darke_Side_Space_TV_25-02-09_wmplow.wmv
More backgroud information can be found on: http://telecom.esa.int/telecom/www/language/index.cfm?flanguageid=5

The Dark Side of Space
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For billions of years, the matter which later formed our galaxy - like countless others - existed in pitch blackness.
Black is still the dominating component of our universe, which is made up of 75% dark energy, 21% dark matter, black holes (representing an unknown small percentage) and stars, which produce the light in our universe but make up only about half a % of its total energy density.
So the dark side is the key component of our universe.
To mark this year of astronomy three European specialists shed some light on the matter
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ITW Volker Springel, Max Plank Institute for Astrophysics
« 2009 is the year of astronomy, we want to teach the public during this year and inform it about this dark side of the universe which represents some of the deepest and the most interesting puzzle of modern physics ».
10:01:35
Of the three components which make up the dark side, black holes have had the most publicity and have fascinated scientists and science fiction writers for a