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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 00:05:43 No.268592 View View Reply Original Report

Oldest star in the universe discovered by Australians

http://www.afp.com/en/node/1266937

>formed just a couple of hundred million years after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago

>the Methuselah star lies in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, at a distance of around 6,000 light years from Earth

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 01:05:24 No.268608 Report

Quoted By: >>268627 >>269045

Oldest star in the universe?

In our galaxy?

I find this odd for some reason, but don't know why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 01:08:24 No.268609 Report

Quoted By: >>268621 >>268627

How do they know this is THE oldest star in the universe, if only like 5% of the universe has even been seen?

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 01:23:00 No.268621 Report

Quoted By: >>268714

>>268609
>5%
More like 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001%

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 01:39:41 No.268627 Report

Quoted By: >>268911

>>268608
>>268609
Oldest star thus far discovered, obviously.
Like those footprints found in Norfolk, England being the earliest signs of human life outside of Africa. Obviously there were humans existing ten minutes before then making other footprints. This is just the earliest we've yet found.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 01:40:03 No.268628 Report

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*oldest known star

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 04:18:03 No.268702 Report

Quoted By: >>268949

>>268592
>the Methuselah star lies in our own galaxy
how do i anthropic principle

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 04:32:16 No.268711 Report

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>>268592
>universe
>not "known universe"
>astronomy
>/out/

>>>/sci/

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 04:42:12 No.268714 Report

Quoted By: >>268928

>>268621
>Measuring fractions of infinity
>Being this pleb

Anonymous

View Same Google ImgOps iqdb SauceNAO 1390863247658.gif, 2MiB, 235x240

Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 17:42:52 No.268911 Report

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>>268627

Holy shit.. Someone who understands logical thinking.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 18:58:57 No.268928 Report

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>>268714
>not using scientific notation

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 21:18:52 No.268949 Report

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>>268702
No, just English idiom.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 23:36:01 No.269045 Report

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>>268608
>I find this odd for some reason, but don't know why?
i felt the same way and I think I figured out why. it seems like the implication is that our galaxy is one of the older ones, whereas we commonly like to believe that our world is one of the more new and immature ones. It would be odd to believe that, assuming there's other races in the universe, that we're one of the older and developed ones.

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Anonymous Tue 11 Feb 2014 23:44:12 No.269047 Report

Quoted By: >>269061

Friendly reminder that astronomy is a >>>/sci/ topic.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2014 00:10:20 No.269061 Report

Quoted By: >>269067

>>269047
>implying space isn't a part of the outdoors

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Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2014 00:18:31 No.269067 Report

Quoted By: >>269083

>>269061
Space travel is /out/ related.

Space itself, meh.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2014 00:52:16 No.269083 Report

Quoted By: >>269086

>>269067
I'm pretty sure space travel would fall under /o/ or /n/, depending on if it was your personal space vehicle, or public transportation.

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Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2014 01:00:07 No.269086 Report

Quoted By: >>269094

>>269083
Unless it was some kind of automobile that also functioned in space it wouldn't belong on /o/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 12 Feb 2014 01:08:33 No.269094 Report

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>>269086
Have you literally never seen The Jetsons?

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