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John Gribbin
The Birth of Time
Hay Festival 1999,
The science writer explains how astronomers at the University of Sussex measured the age of the Universe, and resolved the long-standing puzzle of stars that seemed to be older than time itself. Illustrated with images from the Hubble Space Telescope.