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The Skeptics Guide #874 - Apr 9 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is the Star the Oldest Back in Time?

The star formed about 900 million years after the big bang, when the universe was just seven % of its current age. The photon that we see now took 12 point nine billion light years to reach us. There are older ones yet that have lived longer than this. We do know that it's millions of times brighter than the sun, and at least 50 to 500 solar masses. But if you want specifics about its mass, or temperature, or even the type of star, we're going to have to wait im. It's almost, certainly pretty much dead.

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