{"id":118044,"date":"2021-01-04T15:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/astronomers-agree-universe-is-nearly-14-billion-years-old"},"modified":"2021-01-04T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:23:39","slug":"astronomers-agree-universe-is-nearly-14-billion-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/astronomers-agree-universe-is-nearly-14-billion-years-old","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers agree: Universe is nearly 14 billion years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-agree-universe-is-nearly-14-billion-years-old.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From an observatory high above Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert, astronomers have taken a new look at the oldest light in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Their observations, plus a bit of cosmic geometry, suggest that the universe is 13.77 billion years old \u2013 give or take 40 million years. A Cornell researcher co-authored one of two papers about the findings, which add a fresh twist to an ongoing debate in the astrophysics community.<\/p>\n<p>The new estimate, using data gathered at the National Science Foundation\u2019s Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), matches the one provided by the standard model of the universe, as well as measurements of the same light made by the European Space Agency\u2019s Planck satellite, which measured remnants of the Big Bang from 2009 to \u201913.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an observatory high above Chile\u2019s Atacama Desert, astronomers have taken a new look at the oldest light in the universe. Their observations, plus a bit of cosmic geometry, suggest that the universe is 13.77 billion years old \u2013 give or take 40 million years. A Cornell researcher co-authored one of two papers about the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}