Astronomers discover oldest star: Formed shortly after the Big Bang 13. 7 billion years ago

ScienceDaily ^ | February 9, 2014

[EveningStar]

A team led by astronomers at The Australian National University has discovered the oldest known star in the Universe, which formed shortly after the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago.

The discovery has allowed astronomers for the first time to study the chemistry of the first stars, giving scientists a clearer idea of what the Universe was like in its infancy.

[Ken H]

Doesn’t look a day over 10 billion.

[left that other site]

Not quite. They deny the sun has any affect here on earth. I maintain they are that stupid enough, that duplicitous, and that deceitful enough to claim OUR AGW here will cause the sun to live a shorter life span. There’s a big difference.



Even the ancients knew better than THAT! They believed that we got our life from the Sun...Not the other way around! :-)LOL!

[Gaffer]

Your disbelief neglects the abject stupidity of Democrats.

I cite two examples:

1) Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, on a visit to NASA to watch the touchdown and roving of Curiosity (a probe rover on MARS), asked “Is it gonna go to where the astronauts planted the flag?”; and

2) Democratic Congressman Hank Johnson in a hearing on Marine buildup of Guam expressed a concern that the island would “tip over” because of the added weight on one side.

Comparing today's current inbred, imbecilic, uneducated Democrats and their voters to ancient trailblazers of thought and science (to the extent they could, given societal advancement then) is like comparing a worthless feather to a sledge hammer.

There's a very good reason why that old WKRP Cincinnati episode about the “Great Thanksgiving Helicopter Giveaway” was so funny.

[left that other site]

LOL! hahahaha

[Mad Dawgg]

I've a friend who is always going on about the Big Bang and how it explains everything.

I scoffed at the idea and he got incensed and said he would pay me 100 Bucks if I could come up with something that couldn't be a direct "result" of the Big Bang...

I told him I was game.

I sipped my beer and looked in right in the eye and asked what made the Big Bang go Boom?

His shoulders slumped and he got out his wallet and handed me 5 twenties...

[Vaduz]

Has more logic than the big bang.