Oldest Stars

[Friedenreich Xante]

Fellow Explorers,

I was just reading an article about the theorized stars of Baade's Population Type III, and so roaming EDDB to look what are the oldest stars found yet in the galaxy.

Apparently Stellar forge capped the Maximum Age of any star at 13.065 Billion years. IRL, SMSS_J031300.36-670839.3 and HD 140283 are estimated at 13.6 Billion years and still have a (extremely low) percentage of metal elements and are thus of Population II. Apparently, those do not exist anymore in 3304?

I cannot ask EDDB to check all yet discovered stars because it wants a reference star and only checks 100 ly around. Have older stars yet been discovered?

Unfortunately E: D doesn't Show the components of the stars so we'll likely never know of which Population a star is and if it was one of the first-Born stars after the Big Bang. But it would still be nice to be looking at a star of an Age almost 13.8 Billion years and imagine how it is made of the very first elements that existed after the Big Bang.

 

[Col Frost]

Fellow Explorers,

I was just reading an article about the theorized stars of Baade's Population Type III, and so roaming EDDB to look what are the oldest stars found yet in the galaxy.

Apparently Stellar forge capped the Maximum Age of any star at 13.065 Billion years. IRL, SMSS_J031300.36-670839.3 and HD 140283 are estimated at 13.6 Billion years and still have a (extremely low) percentage of metal elements and are thus of Population II. Apparently, those do not exist anymore in 3304?

I cannot ask EDDB to check all yet discovered stars because it wants a reference star and only checks 100 ly around. Have older stars yet been discovered?

Unfortunately E: D doesn't Show the components of the stars so we'll likely never know of which Population a star is and if it was one of the first-Born stars after the Big Bang. But it would still be nice to be looking at a star of an Age almost 13.8 Billion years and imagine how it is made of the very first elements that existed after the Big Bang.

I can confirm this, I found a Neutron Star aged 13.065 Billion years old back in 3303, and my record has been equalled but never beaten since then

 

[Qohen Leth]

FWIW, there have been several stars older than the galaxy, up to 18By iirc, but I think those have been 'fixed' with a patch.

There supposedly is an expedition looking for those Pop II stars, Elder Suns Expedition.

 

[Orvidius]

I suspect that the Stellar Forge intentionally excludes the pop-III stars, since they're mostly hypothetical. They should exist in some quantity, though most would have died out by now, so probably any surviving ones would be smaller, longer lived stars, such as red dwarfs and the like.

 

[Whiterose]

I am 67 if that helps in your oldest stars.....

I'll get my coat.

 

[JeffRyan]

I prefer the cap to EVE's stars being older than the universe by a good way.

 

[SMcA]

I am 67 if that helps in your oldest stars.....

Youngster.

I'll get my coat.

Don't forget your zimmer frame on the way out.

 

[Friedenreich Xante]

FD should really implement the information of star composition, like it's done for planets. That way we may find those stars, if not by age.

 

[Radition]

I found an O type that was 16million years old they are meant to last from 1 - 10million years. I was wondering if anyone knew of an older one?

 

[schlowi123]

Jup, none of the stars so far reported to EDSM are older than 13.065 billion years. On the other hand, in the 40 Million systems found so far just 7744 stars with that age were found.