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[Andrzej Marecki]

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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 17:12:03 -0600
Subject: The Oldest Light in the Universe
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NASA Science News for February 11, 2003

A NASA satellite has taken a picture of the Big Bang's ancient afterglow.
Scientists have analyzed the data and learned that the universe is 13.7
billon years old (plus or minus 1 percent)and that the first stars
appeared only 200 million years after the Big Bang. These results are a
milestone in cosmology, says the NASA director of astronomy and physics.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/11feb_map.htm?list13497

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