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Star almost as old as universe


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No I don't mean an old person on TV but this:-

 

A long-known star in the relative proximity to the Solar System is the oldest among the billions humanity has studied. Formed shortly

after the Big Bang, it’s now at least astounding 13.2 billion years old.

 

Bond and his team calculated that the star is 13.9 billion years old. This actually places it beyond the time that the universe exists.

The current estimate is that the Big Bang happened some 13.77 billion years ago. This is explained by an experimental error, which

may be as large as 700 million years. So the star is at least 13.2 billion years old and may be several hundred million years older than that.

 

http://rt.com/news/oldest-star-universe-discovery-889/

 

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