An impossibly old star

The Bad Astronomer: “One measurement, using Hubble in 2013, put its age at about 14.5 ± 0.8 billion years old.” What’s that now? The universe is, um, not that old.

Really old stars freak me out. In the best possible way.

Another cool recent post from Phil Plait: Go home, Saturn’s moons, you’re drunk.