Our solar system might be 1.1 million years older than we thought

Astronomers have re-calculated the age of our photo voltaic system, and located it is extremely barely older than we thought – 1.1 million years older, in truth.

That places our photo voltaic system’s age at 4.5684 billion years, fairly than 4.5673 billion years. “1.1 million years is a small change,” says Conel Alexander on the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, DC. “But it does have important implications for the origin of the early solar system.”

The earliest objects we will date within the …