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World Service,19 Oct 2001,23 mins

Dark Energy

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Dark energy,a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space. When some stars appeared to be older than the universe itself, cosmologists discovered that dark energy explains why the rate of expansion of the universe has increased. Presenter unknown.

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