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For more than 100 years, astronomers have been observing a curious star located some 190 light years away from Earth in the constellation Libra.
It rapidly journeys across the sky at 800,000 mph (1.3 million
kilometers per hour). But more interesting than that, HD 140283 — or
Methuselah as it's commonly known — is also one of the universe's oldest
known stars. In 2000, scientists sought to date the star using observations via the European Space Agency's (ESA)
Hipparcos satellite, which estimated an age of 16 billion years old.
Such a figure was rather mind-blowing and also pretty baffling. As
astronomer Howard Bond of Pennsylvania State University pointed out, the
age of the universe — determined from observations of the cosmic
microwave background — is 13.8 billion years old. "It was a serious
discrepancy," he said.
It seems we still have so much to learn!
This is,
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Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“My hero is Methuselah. He lived a thousand years.”
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