The universe has no beginning or an end- Another clue
MSN.com Research article Skip To Content Skip To Footer Sign in EN The star that's 'older than the universe' Dan Satherley 9 hrs ago Trump condemns white supremacy after shootings What we know about the El Paso shooting victims Astronomers are baffled by new measurements of the age of the universe which appear to suggest it's younger than some of the stars it contains. © ESA/Hubble HD 140283. According to their best estimates, the universe is about 13.8 billion years old - but there's a star relatively near to Earth, HD 140283, which appears to be 14.5 billion years old. "It's a riddle of cosmic proportions: how can the universe contain stars older than itself?" physicist Robert Matthews wrote for The National , an English-language newspaper published in UAE. "That's the conundrum now facing astronomers trying to establish the age of the universe