Experts discover universe is older... by 48 million years (From Oxford Mail)
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Experts discover universe is older... by 48 million years
10:50am Friday 22nd March 2013 in News
Research by a team of scientists, including some from Oxford University, suggests the universe is 48 million years older than previously thought.
An image of radiation left behind by the Big Bang was produced by the European Space Agency’s Planck telescope.
The universe has now been given an age of 13.82 billion years.