The Methuselah Star is a Population II star, with considerably less heavy elements, especially iron. There is another hypothesized class of stars, called Population III, which contain essentially ...

However, recent analysis of a star known as "Methuselah star" using the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope suggests that it is 14.5 billion years old - some 700 million years older than the universe.

The Methuselah star, which is just now bloating into a red giant, was probably born in a dwarf galaxy that the nascent Milky Way gobbled up more than 12 billion years ago, researchers said.

"It's like having kids that are older than their parents." The "Methuselah star," cataloged by NASA as HD 140283, is generally considered to be the oldest known star in the Universe, with estimates ...

This “Methuselah star,” cataloged as HD 140283, has been known about for more than a century because of its fast motion across the sky. The high rate of motion is evidence that the star is ...

The star HD 140283 is a subgiant star with an estimated age of 14.46 billion years. That might raise an eyebrow or two for those of you who remember that the age of the universe is estimated as 13 ...

Bond has led studies of the oldest-known Population II star – dubbed HD 140283, or the “Methuselah Star,” after an extremely long-lived patriarch in the Bible – which is about 200 light ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Methuselah star, cataloged as HD 140283, is the oldest star in the universe. Scientists estimated the long-standing star to be 16 billion years old, as observed via the ...

The mysterious star Methuselah appears to be between 14 and 15 billion years old - a bit of an issue considering the universe itself is known to have come into existence 13.8 billion years ago.

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