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BIG BANG THEORY
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Question
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The universe is ____ years old.
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8.13 billion
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13.8 billion
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1.83 billion
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381 million
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -UPDATE! 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: -Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion? How Old Is the Universe?
Detailed explanation-3: -The age of the universe based on the best fit to Planck 2018 data alone is 13.787±0.020 billion years. This number represents an accurate “direct” measurement of the age of the universe, in contrast to other methods which typically involve Hubble’s law and the age of the oldest stars in globular clusters, etc.
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