Name: The Birth of Time

Full name: The Birth of Time: How Astronomers Measured the Age of the Universe

Author: John Gribbin
Year: 1999
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9780300083460
9780300089141
0300083467
0300089147
How old is the universe? This engrossing book recounts how scientists have achieved the definitive answer to one of the great scientific mysteries of our time. Research astronomer John Gribbin tells the story of the struggle to determine the age of the universe and offers an insider's view of the thrilling breakthrough of the 1990s, when Hubble Space Telescope data revealed that the universe is between 13 and 16 billion years old -- older by at least one billion years than the oldest stars.
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