Astronomers spot one of the oldest stars ever

Our Solar System is incredibly old by human standards. The Sun, sitting in the center, is thought to be just over 4.6 billion years old, which is an almost unfathomable amount of time to you and I. But it's actually not all that impressive when it comes to stars. A new survey of one particular star here in our own Milky Way galaxy reveals that it's a whole lot older than anyone thought. In fact, it's old enough to make our own star look like a youngster by comparison. The elderly star is called ...