Astronomers have re-calculated the age of our solar system, and found it is very slightly older than we thought – 1.1 million years older, in fact.
That puts our solar system’s age at 4.5684 billion years, rather than 4.5673 billion years. “1.
1 million years is a small change,” says Conel Alexander at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. “But it does have important implications for the origin of the early solar system.”
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