If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

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Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

Three of the oldest stars in our universe have been discovered, and they were lurking right under our noses this whole time, and traveling in the wrong direction The heavenly bodies were detected by ...

An MIT astronomy class has found three of the oldest stars in the universe lurking right outside the Milky Way. The stars, about 30,000 light-years from Earth, are in the galaxy's "halo," the cloud of ...

The first generation of stars transformed the universe. Inside their cores, simple hydrogen and helium fused into a rainbow of elements. When these stars died, they exploded and sent these new ...

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Astronomers reanalyzed the chemical composition of three stars in the Milky Way's halo and found that they are between 12 and 13 billion years old. They may have also been stolen from other galaxies.

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The three stars are about 12 to 13 billion years old. By Laura Baisas Published May 25, 2024 11:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

To find the universe’s oldest stars, you must look for the ones with low chemical abundances and a retrograde orbit. That’s what a group of students in a class of MIT professor of physics and division ...