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Paradox! How did this 5-million-year-old star survive a 39-million-year journey?
Paradox! How did this 5-million-year-old star survive a 39-million-year journey?,Every now and again in astronomy you find an object that appears to be impossible. You can make, say, two very clear factual statements about it — call them A and B — but the two are mutually contradictory. If A is true, B cannot, and vice-versa. Some people — the kind who make breathless YouTube videos with terrible lighting and use the word "sheeple" a lot — claim that all of science of wrong. A scientist, though, looks at this and says, "Huh. One or both of my assumptions must be wrong."

Paradox! How did this 5-million-year-old star survive a 39-million-year journey?

Every now and again in astronomy you find an object that appears to be impossible. You can make, say, two very clear factual statements about it — call them A and B — but the two are mutually contradictory. If A is true, B cannot, and vice-versa. Some people — the kind who make breathless YouTube videos with terrible lighting and use the word "sheeple" a lot — claim that all of science of wrong. A scientist, though, looks at this and says, "Huh. One or both of my assumptions must be wrong."