OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2009. Russian scientists will study dark energy with the help of new telescope to be launched in 2012.

"Russia has a unique opportunity to become a leader in dark energy studies. We are developing an orbital observatory called Spectrum-RG. This observatory will provide the capability to study and measure the parameters of all the galaxies in the Universe", says Alexey Vikhlinin, Space Reserch Institute leading experted, quoted by by Interfax.

According to Vikhlinin, these reserch activities can make a revolution in space science.