The star is older than the universe

In a discovery that surprised many people, the oldest star is longer than the universe.

Stars HD 140283, also known as Methuselah stars , are no stranger to Earth astronomers.

They have known about its existence for over 100 years, after it swept across the sky at lightning speed, about 1.3 million km / hr.

Every 1,500 years, it reappears so quickly, creating the myth of Methuselah, according to a report on the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

However, according to a new report, the star HD 140283, once discovered, lies 190,1 light years from Earth, turning out to be about 14.5 billion years old.

Why Methuselah surprised astronomers about their true age - (Photo: Caltech)

The abnormality here is that the universe itself is only 13.8 billion years old, and this has shocked many scientists.

The peculiar difference is mostly due to the application of errors in the initial calculation.

Using the Hubble telescope, astronomers can determine that star about 14.5 billion years, plus 800 million years.

This error indicates that the asteroid can form in a short time after the Big Bang event.

The previous estimate was even more different when HD 140283 "said" the age of about 16 billion years, more than 2 billion years compared to the age of the universe.

On this issue, Howard Bond of Pennsylvania State University (USA) commented that the cosmology may have been mistaken, or that astrophysics had flaws, or that the distance of the star was not calculated. exactly.