After years of successful concealment, the most primitive stars outside our Milky Way galaxy have finally been unmasked. New observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have been used to solve an ...
A faint, ancient star sitting inside one of the smallest known galaxies has handed astronomers a direct chemical record of the universe’s earliest stellar explosions. Designated PicII-503, the star ...
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Astronomers discover a rare primitive star that provides a chemical snapshot of the early universe
Astronomers have discovered one of the most chemically primitive stars at the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. The star, called PicII-503, seems to be a member of the universe’s second generation of ...
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