Symphony in the Stars

Researchers from UNSW Sydney recently tuned into 27 stars in the M67 cluster, located about 2,700 light-years away. The stars were “ringing,” each with a unique frequency—similar to musical instruments—depending on its physical properties.

The M67 cluster comprises more than 500 stars.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The research team used a method called asteroseismology, a study of star frequencies. By examining these frequencies, scientists can discover what’s going on inside the stars, including their density, temperature, and age. As stars mature, their frequencies change. By studying these changes, researchers believe they can predict evolutionary changes in color and brightness. They plot these changes on a graph of brightness versus color, then compare the observed color and brightness of the star to this graph to try to figure out the age of the star.

Though each star has a different mass, researchers claim that these stars all formed about 4 billion years ago from the same gas cloud.

Secular scientists come to their conclusions because they start from the wrong foundation. We know from Genesis that stars are much younger than 4 billion years old—God created them on day four of creation week about 6,000 years ago. Asteroseismology allows us one more way to understand how the heavens declare the glory of God, and stars certainly sing the evidence of his handiwork (Psalm 19:1).

This article is from Answers magazine, October–December, 2025, p. 17.