Students Found an Ancient Star That Shouldn’t Be in the Milky Way

Students discovered an ultra-ancient star with almost no heavy elements, making it one of the most pristine ever found.
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A group of students discovers a tiny star with almost no metals that shouldn’t be in the Milky Way

A group of students from the University of Chicago has made an incredible discovery: an ultra-ancient star,SDSS J0715-7334, ...
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This surprising discovery rewrites the Milky Way’s origin story

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may arise from several very different evolutionary events. Bursts of star ...

For the first time, astronomers identify the edge of the Milky Way's disc

Research findings are available online in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The original story “ For the first time, ...