Age of the universe

Rarity: Rare

A topic known well beyond its field, found in many languages.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

In Big Bang models of physical cosmology, the age of the universe is the cosmological time back to the point when the scale factor of the universe extrapolates to zero. Using the latest models and the data from the Planck project, the age of the universe is 13.8 billion years.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Age of the universe”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: NASA / WMAP Science Team, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.