Questions tagged [age]
Questions about the temporal duration of a celestrial object.
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What would evidence of stars and galaxies significantly older than 13.8 billion years old look like? In what parts of space has it not been found?
The September 19, 2023 podcast with transcript Why the earliest galaxies are sparking drama and controversy among astronomers includes the following:
An article published earlier this year in the ...
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Why is Earth 1/3 the age of the universe?
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old
The universe is 13.8 billion years old.
3 times the age of the Earth
Are there other planets with ages that are close to say 1/4 1/5 etc the age of the universe? Why ...
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Cosmic microwave background the same as the first visible light at 379,000 yrs after the Big Bang? How do these measure the age of the universe?
Was the CMB emitted at the same time as visible light at 379,000 yrs after the BB ? Was this a one time event ? If headed away from us, how does it measure the age of the universe?
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What is mass-weighted age?
This seems to be a common term used in the field of stellar populations and galaxy evolution, but I can't find a good definition besides the fact that it is different from light-weighted age (a term I ...
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Does "Angular Diameter Turnaround Point" solve the Great Wall Problem?
According to Wikipedia,
The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall is the largest known structure in the observable universe, measuring approximately 10 billion light-years in length.
But since it's ...
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How did Hubble know the red shift difference between "moving away" and "old"?
My 9yo daughter is very into space at the moment and asked a question that my physics knowledge (6th form college, 20 years ago) is way too poor to answer.
Her space book tells us that as stars age, ...
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How slow would you age on a double gravity planet?
How slow would you age on a double gravity planet?
Gravity of the planet A is 10 units. If you are taken from planet A to planet B where gravity is double that of A, i.e. 20 units. How slowly would ...
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Do black holes have "age" when they form?
I was thinking about black holes, and I know that they form by the death of massive stars. I was wondering, though, do they technically have an "age" when they're born? Do they begin at 0 ...
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Why is there a discrepancy with calculated and given age of nebula
In the book "Horizons: exploring the universe-Cengage learning (2018)", page 206, it states that:
Simple observations tell astronomers about the nature of planetary nebulae. Their angular ...
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Seeming conflict between most distant objects and age of universe (both estimated)
There was a recent article on bbc.com for laypeople like me titled "The mystery of how big our Universe really is", which prompted me to post the following question in their comments section ...
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Long-lived supernova remnants?
We cannot see the supernova remnant of the star that triggered the formation of the Sun and the Solar System, as the remnant dispersed and became mixed into the interstellar medium. So I am wondering, ...
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How to determine the age of a star using asteroseismology?
I keep reading that a standard way to determine the age of a star is asteroseismology, and I tried to learn more about it. I am wondering if somebody could help me to describe the method in simple ...
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How can a very old star be formed among Population III stars?
After looking at some articles about old stars, (this, that, and this Wikipedia article), I thought about how such an old and small star could have formed. As the early universe had very massive, ...
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Absolute model ages of lunar craters
I have been looking at several articles on the dating methods of craters, but I am wondering how exactly the "absoluteness" creeps into it. I came across several methods that link crater &...
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Is a star with 2/3 solar masses and 9/10 solar radii still in the main sequence?
As far as I know, K-type and G-type stars (among others) grow in radius as they age, eventually leading to red giant phases.
My question is, would a star that is about 0.66 solar masses and 0.94 solar ...
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