GK
THE UNIVERSE
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Question
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13.8 billion years
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14 million years
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13.8 billion months
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4.58 million years
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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: -Before 1999, astronomers had estimated that the age of the universe was between 7 and 20 billion years. But with advances in technology and the development of new techniques we now know the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years, with an uncertainty of only 200 million years.
Detailed explanation-3: -76 line illus. Astronomers have determined that our universe is 13.7 billion years old. How exactly did they come to this precise conclusion?
Detailed explanation-4: -The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, according to new research published in a series of papers by an international team of astrophysicists, including Stony Brook’s Neelima Sehgal.