List of oldest stars

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This article is missing information about the age of the very oldest stars in our galaxy's bulge such as from the Gaia spacecraft. Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (June 2018)

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The age of the oldest known stars approaches the age of the universe, about 13.8 billion years. Some of these are among the first stars from reionization (the stellar dawn), ending the Dark Ages about 370,000 years after the Big Bang.[1] This list includes stars older than 12 billion years, or about 87% of the age of the universe.

## List

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Name | Age
(billions of years) | Mass (M☉) | Distance (ly) | Location  | Notes

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HD 140283 | 14.2±0.4[2] | 0.75[2] | 200.5[3] | Milky Way halo  | Agrees with the age of the Universe within one standard deviation.[2]
2MASS J22132050-5137385  | 13.6±2.6  | 0.80±0.08  | 6,560+260−330 | Milky Way | [4]
2MASS J18082002−5104378 | 13.53[5][6] | ~0.8  | 1,950  | Milky Way thin disk |
SMSS J031300.36−670839.3 | 13.4[7] | ~0.75  |  6,000  | Milky Way halo or Globular clusters |
TOI-157[8] | 12.82+0.73
−1.40 | 0.948+0.023−0.018 | 1,181±9  | Milky Way  | Has one exoplanet
PSR B1620−26 | 12.7–11.2[9] | 12,400  | Globular cluster Messier 4 | Host star of one of the oldest exoplanets.
Gliese 414 | 12.4±5.2[10] | 0.65  | 38.7  | Milky Way disk  | Host two exoplanets
BD+44 493[11] | 12.1–13.2  | 0.83+0.09−0.05 | 666.3+3.59−3.26 | Milky Way disk  |
HR 5455 | 12±1[12] | 1.32±0.05 | 87.7  |  |

## References

1. ↑ Barkana, Rennan (1 March 2018). "Possible interaction between baryons and dark-matter particles revealed by the first stars". Nature 555 (7694): 71–74. doi:10.1038/nature25791. PMID 29493590. Bibcode: 2018Natur.555...71B.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lundkvist, M. S.; Larsen, J. R.; Li, Y.; Winther, M. L.; Bedding, T. R.; Kjeldsen, H.; White, T. R.; Nielsen, M. B. et al. (2025-10-13). "Asteroseismic investigation of HD 140283: The Methuselah star". Astronomy and Astrophysics.
3. ↑ Vallenari, A. et al. (2022). "Gaia Data Release 3. Summary of the content and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202243940 Gaia DR3 record for this source at VizieR.
4. ↑ Roederer, Ian U.; Beers, Timothy C.; Hattori, Kohei; Placco, Vinicius M.; Hansen, Terese T.; Ezzeddine, Rana; Frebel, Anna; Holmbeck, Erika M. et al. (2024-08-01). "The R-Process Alliance: 2MASS J22132050–5137385, the Star with the Highest-known r-process Enhancement at [Eu/Fe] = +2.45". The Astrophysical Journal 971 (2): 158. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad57bf. ISSN 0004-637X. Bibcode: 2024ApJ...971..158R.
5. ↑ Schlaufman, Kevin C.; Thompson, Ian B.; Casey, Andrew R. (5 November 2018). "An ultra metal-poor star near the hydrogen-burning limit". The Astrophysical Journal 867 (2): 98. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aadd97. Bibcode: 2018ApJ...867...98S.
6. ↑ "One of Milky Way's oldest stars discovered". 6 November 2018. http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/ultra-metal-poor-star-06577.html.
7. ↑ Ishigaki, Miho N.; Tominaga, Nozomu; Kobayashi, Chiaki; Nomoto, Ken'ichi (2014). "Faint Population III supernovae as the origin of the most iron-poor stars". The Astrophysical Journal Letters 792 (2): L32. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/792/2/L32. Bibcode: 2014ApJ...792L..32I.
8. ↑ Nielsen, L. D.; Brahm, R.; Bouchy, F.; Espinoza, N.; Turner, O.; Rappaport, S.; Pearce, L.; Ricker, G. et al. (July 2020). "Three short-period Jupiters from TESS: HIP 65Ab, TOI-157b, and TOI-169b". Astronomy & Astrophysics 639: A76. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202037941. ISSN 0004-6361. Bibcode: 2020A&A...639A..76N. https://www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202037941.
9. ↑ Lacki, Brian C.; Brzycki, Bryan; Croft, Steve; Czech, Daniel; DeBoer, David; DeMarines, Julia; Gajjar, Vishal; Isaacson, Howard et al. (2021-12-01). "One of Everything: The Breakthrough Listen Exotica Catalog". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 257 (2): 42. doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ac168a. ISSN 0067-0049. Bibcode: 2021ApJS..257...42L.
10. ↑ Dedrick, Cayla M.; Fulton, Benjamin J.; Knutson, Heather A.; Howard, Andrew W.; Beatty, Thomas G.; Cargile, Phillip A.; Gaudi, B. Scott; Hirsch, Lea A. et al. (2021-02-01). "Two Planets Straddling the Habitable Zone of the Nearby K Dwarf Gl 414A". The Astronomical Journal 161 (2): 86. doi:10.3847/1538-3881/abd0ef. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2021AJ....161...86D.
11. ↑ Placco, Vinicius M.; Gupta, Arvind F.; Almeida-Fernandes, Felipe; Logsdon, Sarah E.; Rajagopal, Jayadev; Holmbeck, Erika M.; Roederer, Ian U.; John Della Costa et al. (2024). "BD+44 493: Chemo-Dynamical Analysis and Constraints on Companion Planetary Masses from WIYN/NEID Spectroscopy". The Astrophysical Journal 977 (1): 12. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad8646. Bibcode: 2024ApJ...977...12P.
12. ↑ Fuhrmann, Klaus; Chini, Rolf (2017-10-21). "On the ancient field blue straggler HR 5455". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 471 (2): 1888–1891. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1784. ISSN 0035-8711.

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