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Related: About this forumAstronomers discover 13.6 billion-year-old star — the oldest in the Universe
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/10/astronomers-discover-13-6-billion-year-old-star-the-oldest-in-the-universe/Astronomers discover 13.6 billion-year-old star the oldest in the Universe
By Reuters
Monday, February 10, 2014 8:31 EST
Australian astronomers have found the oldest known star in the universe, a discovery that may help to resolve a long-standing discrepancy between observations and predictions of the Big Bang billions of years ago.
Dr Stefan Keller, lead researcher at the Australian National University Research School, told Reuters his team had seen the chemical fingerprint of the first star. After 11 years of searching, the star was discovered using the SkyMapper telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory.
This star was formed shortly after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago, Keller said.
Its giving us insight into our fundamental place in the universe. What were seeing is the origin of where all the material around us that we need to survive came from.
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Astronomers discover 13.6 billion-year-old star — the oldest in the Universe (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Feb 2014
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aristocles
(594 posts)1. Can't be true.
Everyone knows God created the stars on the fourth day, October 27, 4004 B.C.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. The NEWEST Testament should be out in hard cover by the fall.
SamKnause
(13,114 posts)3. Indeed
It was thought that the current "New Testament" was to liberal.
Will this nonsense ever come to an end ????