• An independent method for determining the age of the universe 

      Winget, Donald Earl; Liebert, James; Horn, H.M. van; Fontaine, Gilles; Nather, R. Edward; Kepler, Souza Oliveira; Lamb, Donald Q.; Hansen, Carl J.; Hasen, C.J. (1987) [Artigo de periódico]
      The oldest white dwarf stars in the solar neighborhood are still observable, and their luminosity distribution can be used to determine directly the age of the Galactic disk and, somewhat less directly, the age of the ...