The Universe Is Probably Around 13.8 Billion Years Old
According to the European Space Agency’s Planck observatory—which measures temperature variations in the cosmic background—our universe is around 13.8 billion years old.
However, the team working with Hubble telescope estimated our universe to be 12.5 billion years old based on the expansion rate of the universe.
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