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Re:Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the U... by wffurr on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:42PM (#24422840)
"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."

https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/que....

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Re:Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the U... by lkbm on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:55PM (#24422989)
Whoa, that's crazy precise. They got it down to the tens of thousands?

If so, seems like they should write "13.700 billion" for the first part. I'm a little suspicious of this number as-is.

Looking for a source for those numbers, I found this[0]:

> While previous estimates were 13.7 billion years old, give or take 130,000 years, new predictions hone in with more precision- at around 13.77 billion years, plus or minus 40 million years.

Which is much less precise and feels a lot more believable.

[0] https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/18295/light-bang-rev...

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Re:Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the U... by bhk on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:23PM (#24423345)
So NASA said "plus or minus 130,000 years" when they were actually off by about 70 million years?
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Re:Why is there a normal galaxy sitting at the edge of the U... by johncolanduoni on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:39PM (#24423559)
That’s a misprint, the WMAP measurement was plus or minus 130 million years.
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