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Scientists add 100M years to age of universe

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The universe has hidden its age well. The European Space Agency's Planck space telescope has scanned the skies for the Big Bang's fingerprint and discovered that the universe is about 100 million years older than thought.

The findings announced yesterday by ESA and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration peg the universe's age at 13.8 billion years. It's...

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