NASA Found a Star That’s… Older Than Everything? (Ep 3)

In the dark, quiet corner of the constellation Libra... a cosmic paradox flickers.
Meet the Methuselah Star — a celestial time capsule that once appeared to be older than the universe itself. Estimated at over 14 billion years, HD 140283 defied everything we knew about the cosmos, forcing scientists to question the very timeline of reality.
How could a star exist before the Big Bang? What makes it so old? And what does its story reveal about the earliest stars, the age of the universe, and the journey of starlight through time?
In this episode of The Strangest Stars in the Universe, we unravel one of astronomy’s most bizarre mysteries — and how new data helped (almost) solve it.
🌌 Don’t miss this cosmic detective story.
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