Starship Asterisk*

A very cool visual tool for meteors and their radiants. Another presentation, as a time-lapse movie with say two week time slices I think would highlight the radiants better. Any chance an editor, with some influence could request something like that from the Japanese source??

We seem to be drifting off topic here. Chris' first response seems most cogent. If the current formula for calculating the age of the Universe is barely affected by the increased rate of expansion related to Dark Energy now, 13.7 billion years after the creation of the universe; then as expansion co...

If Dark Energy is increasing the expansion rate of the universe (ie. Expansion rate is not constant) wouldn't that effect the Hubble "constant", Red shift with time, and our current estimates of the age of the universe?? It was nearly 15 years ago, there was some debate whether the univers...