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HD 140283 (also known as the Methuselah star) is a metal-poor subgiant star about 200 light years away from the Earth in the constellation Libra, near the boundary with Ophiuchus in the Milky Way Galaxy. Its apparent magnitude is 7.205, so it can be seen with binoculars. It is one of the oldest stars known.
PSR B1620-26 b is an exoplanet located approximately 12,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius.It bears the unofficial nicknames "Methuselah" and "the Genesis planet" (named after the Biblical character Methuselah, who, according to the Bible, lived to be the oldest person) due to its extreme age.
The subgiant star HD 140283, believed to be the oldest extant star discovered, is often nicknamed "The Methuselah Star" after the ancient biblical figure. [45] The name is also used to refer to the exoplanet PSR B1620−26 b , which is one of the oldest known exoplanets with an estimated age of 12.7 billion years old.
Location Notes BD+17°3248: 13.8 ± 4 [2] [a] ~0.8 968 Milky Way halo: High uncertainty in age: 2MASS J18082002−5104378: ... Host star of one of the oldest exoplanets.
Methuselah (cellular automaton), a long-surviving pattern in Conway's Game of Life; Methuselah-like proteins, insect proteins that extend the life span of the animal; Methuselah (planet), nickname for PSR B1620-26 b, one of the oldest exoplanets; Methuselah star, nickname for HD 140283, one of the oldest stars known
Kolob is a star or planet described in the Book of Abraham, a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Several Latter Day Saint denominations claim that the Book of Abraham was translated from an Egyptian papyrus scroll (which was actually a copy of the Egyptian funerary texts) by Joseph Smith, the founder of the movement.
Stephenson 2 DFK 1, also known as RSGC2-01 [a] or St2-18, is a red supergiant (RSG) or possible extreme red hypergiant [2] (RHG) star in the constellation of Scutum.It lies near the open cluster Stephenson 2, which is located about 5.8 kiloparsecs (19,000 light-years) away from Earth in the Scutum–Centaurus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, and is assumed to be one of a group of stars at a ...
Joshua Bloom of the University of California, Berkeley, who was able to observe the location of the GRB at the Gemini South telescope in Chile, called the discovery of GRB 090423 a "watershed event" as it marked "the beginning of the study of the universe as it was before most of the structure that we know about today came into being."