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    How old is the universe?

    Question #44309. Asked by Prophet Man.

    sequoianoir

    		The fingerprint of uranium-238 in 'stellar carbon dating' puts it at 12.5 billion years.
    The Hubble Space Telescope using its deep field image camera has taken pictures of galaxies 12 billion light years away.
    So the current figure is around 12 billion years.

    Feb 14 04, 7:17 AM

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