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xkcd #3281: Antiques Roadshow

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The family lore was that we've had it ever since it was ejected from a star-forming gas cloud, but it seems more likely that my great-grandparents probably just bought it while on vacation in the galactic thin disk.

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[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

Well, if they started at the oldest and then realized there were even older stars, then we'd have a bigger problem.

Astronomy starts with the names, then works towards understanding, which makes almost all the names wrong in some way. Sometimes very wrong.

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