Episode 167: Current in Space + The Best of The Star Spot: Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt
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Today we offer a best of from our vault here at The Star Spot. We dug back to a fan favourite, our December 2014 interview with Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt, who won the biggest prize in science for discovering the accelerating universe.
In 1998 two teams of astronomers announced that the expansion of our universe isn’t slowing down as everyone assumed. Its speeding up.
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