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    Astronomers Discovered Stars in The Galaxy That Are Almost 13.6 Billion Years Old

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    Astronomers calculate the age of the universe by measuring cosmological parameters that describe the evolution of the universe from its initial hot, dense state to the present. The standard Lambda-CDM model fits observations like the cosmic microwave background and supernovae distances well and yields an age of 13.799 ± 0.021 billion years. Other observations like galaxy clustering and ages are consistent with this age, providing validation of the model.

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    Astronomers calculate the age of the universe by measuring cosmological parameters that describe the evolution of the universe from its initial hot, dense state to the present. The standard Lambda-CDM model fits observations like the cosmic microwave background and supernovae distances well and yields an age of 13.799 ± 0.021 billion years. Other observations like galaxy clustering and ages are consistent with this age, providing validation of the model.

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    Astronomers calculate the age of the universe by measuring cosmological parameters that describe the evolution of the universe from its initial hot, dense state to the present. The standard Lambda-CDM model fits observations like the cosmic microwave background and supernovae distances well and yields an age of 13.799 ± 0.021 billion years. Other observations like galaxy clustering and ages are consistent with this age, providing validation of the model.

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    Astronomers calculate the age of the universe by assuming that the Lambda-CDM model accurately

    describes the evolution of the Universe from a very uniform, hot, dense primordial state to its present
    state and measuring the cosmological parameters which constitute the model. [citation needed] This model is
    well understood theoretically and supported by recent high-precision astronomical observations such
    as WMAP and Planck.[citation needed] Commonly, the set of observations fitted includes the cosmic
    microwave background anisotropy, the brightness/redshift relation for Type Ia supernovae, and
    large-scale galaxy clustering including the baryon acoustic oscillation feature.[citation needed] Other
    observations, such as the Hubble constant, the abundance of galaxy clusters, weak gravitational
    lensing and globular cluster ages, are generally consistent with these, providing a check of the
    model, but are less accurately measured at present. [citation needed] Assuming that the Lambda-CDM model
    is correct, the measurements of the parameters using a variety of techniques by numerous
    experiments yield a best value of the age of the universe as of 2015 of 13.799 ± 0.021 billion years.[2]

    Astronomers discovered stars in the Milky Way galaxy that are almost 13.6 billion years old.

    Over time, the universe and its contents have evolved; for example, the relative population
    of quasars and galaxies has changed[62] and space itself has expanded. Due to this expansion,
    scientists on Earth can observe the light from a galaxy 30 billion light-years away even though that
    light has traveled for only 13 billion years; the very space between them has expanded. This
    expansion is consistent with the observation that the light from distant galaxies has been redshifted;
    the photons emitted have been stretched to longer wavelengths and lower frequency during their
    journey. Analyses of Type Ia supernovae indicate that the spatial expansion is accelerating.[63][64]
    The more matter there is in the universe, the stronger the mutual gravitational pull of the matter. If
    the universe were too dense then it would re-collapse into a gravitational singularity. However, if the
    universe contained too little matter then the self-gravity would be too weak for astronomical
    structures, like galaxies or planets, to form. Since the Big Bang, the universe has
    expanded monotonically. Perhaps unsurprisingly, our universe has just the right mass-energy
    density, equivalent to about 5 protons per cubic metre, which has allowed it to expand for the last
    13.8 billion years, giving time to form the universe as observed today. [65]

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