Venus and Jupiter this evening

[Lodestone]

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Originally posted by TomK

the evidence that the universe is not only continuing to expand, but actually accelerating continues to befuddle me

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Oh, good. That annoying fact has been confusing me since I first read it. I'm glad it makes little sense to the professionals either. For those that wonder what practical use there is to astronomy, it's this sort of thing: every time physicists get relaxed and complacent and thinking they more or less have things all worked out, astronomers peer a little farther, point at something inexplicable like this, and shoo them off to giddily explore a new mystery.