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I keep hearing about dark energy driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, but I don't really understand what it is. How do we know the universe's expansion is accelerating? What evidence supports the existence of dark energy? And how does dark energy universe expansion differ from regular expansion? Is dark energy a property of space itself, or is it something else?