The Oldest Star in the Universe
Hank tells the story of the mysterious star known as "Methuseleh," and why scientists think that it is the oldest known star in the universe. Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also...
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We know a shocking amount about the Universeconsidering that we can only observe it from this one tiny point in space that is our planet.The fact that we're able to calculate the age, composition, and speed of stars,or that we can know what the Universe is made of, and how old and big it is.It's pretty freaking cool.All of that knowledge is based on observations and calculations, and sometimes, it's wrong.Consider HD 140283, or the Methuselah star,which according to initial calculations, is about 2 billion years older than the Universe.(intro)So obviously somebody's got something wrong here,and it's almost certainly the age of this particular star,not our supposed age of the Universe, which is pretty well set.When it was first mea...
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We know a shocking amount about the Universeconsidering that we can only observe it from this one tiny point in space that is our planet.The fact that we're able to calculate the age, composition, and speed of stars,or that we can know what the Universe is made of, and how old and big it is.It's pretty freaking cool.All of that knowledge is based on observations and calculations, and sometimes, it's wrong.Consider HD 140283, or the Methuselah star,which according to initial calculations, is about 2 billion years older than the Universe.(intro)So obviously somebody's got something wrong here,and it's almost certainly the age of this particular star,not our supposed age of the Universe, which is pretty well set.When it was first mea...
