Star older than the universe discovered According to the generally accepted Big Bang Theory, the Universe is about 13.8 billion years old, but based on the latest data, astronomers say that the first stars in the Universe appeared about 150-200 million years after its birth, but one of the stars is very famous in scientific community, and its history of study is associated with many disputes and disagreements. We are talking about the star HD140283. According to the latest data from the Hubble Telescope, we are 202 light years apart. The star is a yellow subgiant star that has left the main sequence, but has not yet entered the red giant stage - during this period, the star cools and increases in size, and its luminosity remains practically unchanged. The core of the star is hot, but inert, that is, the hydrogen reactions in it have already stopped, and the helium ones have not yet begun. Despite its status as a subgiant, it is not much larger than our Sun: it is 1.3 times heavier, 1.5 times larger and 4 times brighter. The temperature of its surface is the same as on the Sun - about 5700C - 6000C. HD140283 is located in the constellation Libra, almost on the border with the constellation Ophiuchus. It is impossible to see the star with the naked eye. Initially, a group of astronomers from Pennsylvania State University led by Howard Bond back in 2013 (https://bit.ly/32kJp3G), relying on data from the Hubble telescope and spectroscopic chemical analysis of the star's atmosphere, counted the age of the star at 16 billion years! The distance was determined accurately, since the star does not live that far from the Sun. Astronomers decided to clarify the data. They combined all information from different telescopes, satellites and observatories to correct distance, luminosity and spectral type. The distance was reduced to 190 light years, but even at this mark, the age of the star did not fit into generally accepted ideas - 14.5 billion years with an error of 800 million. Refinements, calculations and computer simulations have shown in the end that HD140283 is probably about 13.3 billion years old, and the star is only very ancient, born in the era of the "childhood" of the Universe. But this is not the final conclusion. And the controversy in the scientific community continues.