Milky Way's Age Narrowed Down

There's an old saying that "A lady never tells her age." The same could be said about our galaxy. the Milky Way.

According to Space.com, though, we are narrowing it down.

"A new estimate of the age of our Milky Way Galaxy suggests it was an original member of the universe, having been born just about as early on as was possible.

"The overall universe is about 13.7 billion years old. That figure, after decades of wildly varying estimates, was pinned down last year to within 200 million years of accuracy. Scientists used space-based observations of a microwave background radiation that had been unleashed as a dense fog cleared, shortly after the universe's formation."

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