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

Astronomers have re-calculated the age of our solar system, and located it is rather barely older than we thought – 1.1 million years older, in reality.

That places our solar system’s age at 4.5684 billion years, reasonably 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 can date within the …