It's.....John McCain!

13 billion years?! This is wrong, everyone knows that the Universe is just 6000 years old.

Sincerely

The Flat Earther Right

Common danni, you went with mccain?
robert byrd could be his grampa.

Holy crap, that was meant as a joke but it is possible.

"Common danni, you went with mccain?
robert byrd could be his grampa.

Holy crap, that was meant as a joke but it is possible.
#3 | Posted by salamandagator at 2009-10-29 04:26 PM"

"grampa"? Really???

Sen. Byrd has less than 19 years on Sen. McCain.

The Democratic Party wasn't stupid enough to put someone with one foot in the grave up for President. Or someone with one foot in her mouth.

Now Strom Thurmond......

Wait, I am going as a Republican for Halloween, so let me practice here real quick......

"BullShit!"

Pretty scary huh?

""grampa"? Really???

Sen. Byrd has less than 19 years on Sen. McCain."

That would be quite the feat but he was born in north Carolina so he may in fact be his own grampa.

Must be Phillis Diller's holy of holies. It's so old it has a petrified &*&*^&*^&*^*& piece

Larry

"That would be quite the feat but he was born in north Carolina so he may in fact be his own grampa.
#8 | Posted by salamandagator at 2009-10-29 05:30 PM"

Then again, maybe:

"I'm the seventh out of a seventh son
My pappy was a pistol, I'm a son of a gun"
- Dang Me by Roger Miller

And here I thought the "Oldest Object Ever Seen In The Universe"...was that gob of Tyrannosaurus Rex semen on 101 hairbrain's chin.

Good. At post #12, I'll be the first to have one on topic.

This must've been an extremely massive star to have had such a short life. Our own sun is expected to live about 10 billion years, and here is one that lived shorter than 400,000. What makes this more incredible is that most star formation did not begin in earnest for almost a billion years after the BB.

I'd like to know how this is reconciled. The article doesn't say.

Is #11 supposed to be funny?

If ya' have to ask......then, no.

"I'd like to know how this is reconciled. "

That's what makes astrophysics so cool. The farther back we can see, the more questions get raised.

"Astronomers alerted to the find trained several of Earth's largest telescopes skyward just in time to see the gamma-ray burst's fading afterglow."

I wonder how long it lasted - had we been able to observe the entire event. Any ideas on how it came to astronomers' attention - the article seems to suggest that it was spotted by chance?

Nice article. Thanks for posting it!