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2024-10-02 20:09:18

Mark Wyner :vm: on Nostr: This is a digitized sky survey image of HD 140283, or Methuselah. It's the oldest ...

This is a digitized sky survey image of HD 140283, or Methuselah. It's the oldest known star in our Universe.

Its estimated age is ~14.5 billion years. However, some think it's closer to ~200 billion.

The conundrum is that our Universe's age is estimated at ~13.787 billion years. So there's a potential error in stellar physics or distance of Methuselah. It's an enigma.

Methuselah:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_140283

Universe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe

#Space #Astronomy #Science #Physics #AstroPhysics

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