SCIENCE
EARTH SCIENCE
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Question
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About 14 billion years old
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10 million years
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6, 700 years old
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Measurements made by NASA’s WMAP spacecraft have shown that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus about 130, 000 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scientists’ best estimate is that the universe is about 13.8 billion years old. But, like so many of the largest-scale properties of the universe, we are not entirely sure about its age.
Detailed explanation-3: -The scientists studied an image of the oldest light in the universe to confirm its age of 13.8 billion years. This light, the “afterglow” of the Big Bang, is known as the cosmic microwave background and marks a time 380, 000 years after the universe’s birth when protons and electrons joined to form the first atoms.
Detailed explanation-4: -Far from being 13.8 billion years old, as estimated by the European Planck space telescope’s detailed measurements of cosmic radiation in 2013, the universe may be as young as 11.4 billion years. If that is, indeed, the case, then Methuselah is one again older than the universe.