Friends, it looks like our secular scientists have a huge problem. They claim the Methuselah Star - HD140283 may be older than the universe itself. Science constantly runs into a problem by putting dates on their so-called discoveries. As for me I will just go with what God eventually will tell us. Besides, the scientists say there is a margin of error of 800 million years!
Scientists have discovered an “impossible” star which appears to
be older than the universe.
The mysterious star Methuselah appears to be
between 14 and 15 billion years old - a bit of an issue
considering the universe itself is known to have come into existence 13.8
billion years ago.
Oddly enough, Methuselah is
even located inside our own Milky Way galaxy – about 190 light years away.
And even after using new
information about the star’s distance from us, its brightness and its
structure, scientists are unable to place an estimate of its age much below
14.5 billion years – still older than the universe.
Fortunately for the team from Pennsylvania State University and
the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, there appears to be a
margin of error of about 800 million years, or so – enough to just barely place the star below the age of everything
else, if peace of mind is important to you.
Formally known as HD
140283, the star is the oldest object currently known to astronomers.
It was first discovered a
century ago, moving more than 800,000 mph relative to our solar system.
The star is on a long and
looping orbit around the galaxy, and is only briefly passing through Earth’s
neighbourhood on the western spiral arm.
In the study published in
Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers said the star was born in a ‘dwarf
galaxy’ which was swallowed by the Milky Way more than 12 billion years ago.
Using new measurements the
team was able to refine its estimate of the star’s position, and learn more
about its structure.
The study suggests that
further research might bring the age of the star down even further.
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