[SCIENCE] Earth university seeks out ancient star

[SCIENCE] Earth university seeks out ancient star

(Bhubaneswar, India region, Earth)

National Institute of Science Education and Research of Bhubaneswar has begun a public campaign to solicit funding for a space expedition to one of the oldest known stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Star number 140283 on the Earth Henry Draper catalogue or Methuselah star was added to the catalogue between years 1918 and 1924 Earth Calendar, but its significance became apparent only after more precise instruments enabled proper measurements decades later. The star's age has been narrowed down to second generation of stars born after beginning of the universe, some 13 billion years ago.

The Institute's astrophysics department has begun to draft a flight route to Methuselah star which lies only 190 light-years away from Sol, a dozen and an half day's trip one way if traveled in a straight line. Institute officials have stated that other universities are welcome to join them should they help to cover the costs for chartering a long-range vessel for the expedition.

All of a sudden I feel young. Very young.

You're still a fossil by furhead standards, I bet.

40

Holy shit, what. You're forty? Jeez, Palmer, you coulda told me you were nearly twice my fuckin' age. You look like you're barely in your mid-twenties.

Modern medicine, ladies and gentlemen.

Holy shit. You are old as fuck

How old're YOU, whelp? Forty's barely outta diapers!

First off, I ain't a whelp. So fuck you.

Secondly, furheads age faster, so like forty years to them is like a lot to us.

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You think 40 is old? I'm in my seventies, and I'm still spry!

Well at least they're soliticing funding from other sources instead of asking SATAE's regional director to give it to them. There's lot more pressing needs than getting to see a star up close right now.

Old as fuck.

Says the krogan.

I'm sure it will be exciting to study such an ancient astronomical object up close. It would have to be a neutron star by now..

Interesting enough it is not, it never went through a supernova event, it is a sub giant, although a pretty unconventional one.
The brightness is surprisingly high. Yes, that would be quite a field trip to see but then, getting up close to a star still is something creepy.