how far is the oldest object you just mentioned above is from earth?
200 light years
HD 140283
HD 140283 (or the Methuselah star) is a metal-poor subgiant star about 200 light years away from the Earth in the constellation Libra
where does the gas and dust to form stars originate from "molecular clouds" what is this quoted term means? A molecular cloud, sometimes called a stellar nursery, is a type of interstellar cloud, the density and size of which permit the formation of molecules, most commonly molecular hydrogen where this type of clouds are formed? In the space between the star systems in a galaxy what are its types? Giant molecular clouds and Small molecular clouds what are the characteristics of the above object which is formed from dust and gas? Luminosity, size, evolution, lifespan what can you tell about its age? Most stars are between 1 billion and 10 billion years old. Some stars may even be close to 13.8 billion years old—the observed age of the universe. The oldest star yet discovered, HD 140283, nicknamed Methuselah star, is an estimated 14.46 ± 0.8 billion years old. what are the chemical composition of this type of object? 71% hydrogen and 27% helium
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HD 140283 [SEP] Introduction
It is one of the closest metal-poor (Population II) stars to Earth. The star was already known by 1912 when W. S. Adams measured its astrometry using a spectrograph in the Mount Wilson Observatory.