Astronomy / Space A star to visit

Dejay

Dejay
Maybe a distortion of space time because the other star is traveling near the speed of light? Relativity is confusing as heck...
 

Yaffle

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Yaffle
This is why I love science. Things are seen that don't fit, so rather than ignoring it or hiding it people go away and think about it, or the model it won't fit into and either revisit the sums or revisit the model.
 

Dejay

Dejay
I can't wait to visit this old buddy in Elite Dangerous. He's nearby too, only 160 ly!
Maybe I'll find some clues and can enlighten the scientists. Maybe the star is a survivor from the Alpha Universe? You know, the one before the big bang?
 

JeffRyan

JeffRyan
It's why I get REALLY swear word annoyed with Christian Scientists who point at stuff like this and go LOOK SCIENCE DOESN'T WORK!!!! When THIS is the whole point of science.
 

Zieman

Zieman
Yaffle said:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hd140283.html

Hubble and its attendants find, well refine, the age of a star to be 14.5 billion years, a puzzle given the age of the universe at 13.8 billion years.

It has an interesting orbital path too, likely from a dwarf galaxy assimilated into ours countless years ago.
Click to expand...
Plus-minus 0,8 thousand million years - so there's a chance even with that estimate that the star is still younger than the Universe.

Anyway, finds like these put current theories in test and will likely result in refinements, both of some theories and of the measurements (like this case: 1950's astronomers --> Hipparchos --> Hubble).

Good spotting.
 
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