... Stars . ... By admin August 13, 2013 Posted in: Stars . This is a Digitized Sky Survey image of HD 140283, the oldest star with a well-determined age in our galaxy. ... However astronomers are refining their models of exactly how stars work all the time.Тљ The estimated age of 16 billion years had an uncertainty of two billion years from the inaccuracy of its measured distance alone, if any of the predicted details of the star?s interior processes were off this uncertainty could be larger still. ...