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Dates: during 1994-1994
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...state of high anxiety. The problem: our own galaxy has stars believed to be as much as 14 billion to 16 billion years old. And it makes astronomers more than a little uncomfortable to try to explain how stars could have formed before the universe began. Says Alexei Filippenko, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer who was on the team that made the Hubble observations: "This is fantastic stuff ... it might lead to a revolution in cosmology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops ... Wrong Answer | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

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