Astronomers Find Ancient Star 'Methuselah' Which Appears To Be Older Than The Universe

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I'm not one of those guys...but i swear these dudes just make shyt up as they go along. I undertand thats the discovery process, but at some point scientific fact and law got thrown in the bushes for theory and belief.
 

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this does not answer any of my questions. What makes you think other stars are the same as our sun?
:what: From what we know, the sun is just like any other star that will eventually turn into a red giant, engulf much of our solar system and burn out.
 

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I'm not one of those guys...but i swear these dudes just make shyt up as they go along. I undertand thats the discovery process, but at some point scientific fact and law got thrown in the bushes for theory and belief.

Sometimes that's all we have to go on considering our limited understanding of the universe. I suspect our star-dating technique isn't even accurate to begin with.
 

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your original post was...

a star older then the universe?

wonder what it is made of to live for so long? And am i reading it correctly does it say this star orbits our galaxy?
I didn't think stars move.

my response was

the sun is a star

to which you replied

this does not answer any of my questions. What makes you think other stars are the same as our sun?

which doesn't make sense to me. Because we know that:

The Sun does revolve around the Milky Way on an almost circular orbit with a speed of about 220km/s. The Sun completes one revolution in about 230 million years. The Milky Way also moves - we are moving towards or nearest neighbour the Andromeda galaxy and both the Milky Way and Andromeda (which make up most of what we call the 'Local Group of galaxies') are moving towards the Virgo Cluster which is our nearest cluster of ga

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=96

Thats 9th grade earth science.

Then you ask, "what makes you think of other stars as the same as our sun?" Astronomy has already answered this.

The Sun is classified as a G-type main-sequence star (G2V) based on spectral class and it is informally designated as a yellow dwarf because its visible radiation is most intense in the yellow-green portion of the spectrum, and although its color is actually a white, from the surface of the Earth it may appear yellow because of atmospheric scattering of blue light.

The Sun is the best known (and most visible) example of a G-type main-sequence star. Each second, it fuses approximately 600 million tons of hydrogen to helium, converting about 4 million tons ofmatter to energy.[3][4] Besides the Sun, other well-known examples of G-type main-sequence stars include Alpha Centauri A, Tau Ceti, and 51 Pegasi.

I would be able to answer these on my own, but I'm currently trying to map out some economic figures for the US health care system. I do apologize if I come off as not "knowing" the information, but trust, if I had not passed the NY state regents exams for chemistry and physics (both basic test), I would not be in the position to speak to you in this context.

Plus I'm absolutely drunk right now......hopefully this info answered your questions
 

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calm down, it's just that the universe is older than we think.
 

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[quthinkBlackking, post: 5070285, member: 3451"]calm down, it's just that the universe is older than we think. [/quote]

I think the real truths about the universe is beyond human comprehension. Think about high big the universe is, how old it is, and what's beyond it is mind boggling.
 

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lol, I used to be such an astronomy geek in 4th and 5th grade I read every book in the library cover to cover. I wish we put more resources into understanding the universe and space exploration we should be colonizing the solar system right now but nikkaz wanna stay on Earth and argue over petty shyt. :shaq2:
 
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