SPACE WEEK: The Mystery Of Dark Energy

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🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

It's Space Week on Short Wave! Today, an encore of our episode on dark energy. This mysterious energy makes up almost 70% of our universe and is believed to be the reason the universe is expanding. Yet very little is known about it. To figure out what we do know — and what it could tell us about the fate of the universe — we talk to astrophysicist Sarafina Nance.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, Maddie Sifaya here.
0:02.1	And Emily Quang.
0:03.3	So we don't hide the fact that on this show,
0:05.9	we love stories about space.
0:08.1	We've talked food in space.
0:10.3	Is there lactose in this?
0:11.5	Sure.
0:12.0	And lactose intolerant.
0:13.0	Dry.
0:13.5	I actually got...
0:14.5	Contains milk, Quang.
0:16.0	I actually...
0:17.0	Stargazes with astronomers.
0:18.5	This is one of those well-kept secrets of astronomy.
0:20.5	A lot of us are embarrassingly bad at finding things in the night sky.
0:24.5	Even interviewed astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
0:29.5	Station, this is NPR.
0:30.8	How do you hear me?
0:31.8	We have you loud and clear, NPR.
0:33.3	How do you hear us?
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