Analysis of data from the European Space Agency’s Planck mission has found out some pretty cool new things about our universe, including:
- It's older than we believed, at about 13.81 billion years.
- It's expanding more slowly than we expected.
- It's made up of 4.9 percent normal matter, 26.8 percent dark matter, and 68.3 percent dark energy.
- And finally, that it's a tiny bit lopsided. Read more here: http://slate.me/Yci6Bi
and from the same site, which puts the above in a very real and sobering context:
