> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Astronomers refined the star's age down to about 14.5 billion years (which >> is still older than the universe), from the original data showing 16 billion >> years old. In either event it is way older then the Milky Way - yet there it >> is - not too far away cosmologically speaking. >>
I wrote: > Indeed, If it is really that old it should be billions of light years > away from our own galaxy according > to standard cosmology. Hold on, what am I saying? This is wrong, because a star within our galaxy can be older than our galaxy, since stars formed before galaxies. So Jones, a star as old as the universe is not a problem for standard cosmology. Harry
