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Originally posted by Thorneblood
So NASA is all about Satan?
The best estimate of the age of the universe as of 2013 is 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years[2] but due to the expansion of space humans are observing objects that were originally much closer but are now considerably farther away (as defined in terms of cosmological proper distance, which is equal to the comoving distance at the present time) than a static 13.8 billion light-years distance.[3] The diameter of the observable universe is estimated at about 28 billion parsecs (93 billion light-years),[4] putting the edge of the observable universe at about 46–47 billion light-years away.[5][6]
Originally posted by shaneslaughta
reply to post by biggmoneyme
13.77 billion years. its 96 billion light years across.
Originally posted by alienreality
reply to post by boncho
Curious that this star is 190 LY away in our galaxy , when our galaxy's diameter is 100k-120k light years.. I must have missed something.
he Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy some 100,000–120,000 light-years in diameter
Originally posted by Thorneblood
Take that Religion!
Of course it could just be the "Light of God"
Originally posted by wildespace
Hubble data and improved theoretical calculations were used to recalculate the star's age and lower the estimate to 14.5 billion years, within a measurement uncertainty of plus or minus 800 million years. This places the star within a comfortable range to be younger than the universe.