Astronomers Discover What Could Be One of The Oldest Stars in The Known Universe
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A red giant star 16,000 light-years away appears to be a bona fide member of just the second generation of stars in the Universe.
A red giant star 16,000 light-years away appears to be a bona fide member of just the second generation of stars in the Universe.
Astronomers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, studied X-ray emissions to measure the mass of a supermassive black hole…
Astronomers have struggled to find evidence for the massive stars thought to populate the early universe. Now, some say they…
Astronomer Anna Frebel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is part of a team that reported the discovery this week of…
There is a myth that goldfish have a three-second memory, and I sometimes wonder if the same is true about the part of the…
There is a myth that goldfish have a three-second memory, and I sometimes wonder if the same is true about the part of the…
There is a myth that goldfish have a three-second memory, and I sometimes wonder if the same is true about the part of the…
The star is estimated to be about 6,000 light-years away from our planet. To find it, the researchers had to sift through…
A star in our home galaxy that is almost as old as the universe has been discovered using techniques reminiscent of archaeology
Astronomers have found what appears to be one of the oldest known stars in the universe
Astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered the oldest known star in the Universe—which formed…
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Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a second-generation star, whose chemical…
Une équipe de chercheurs australiens a débusqué à seulement 6.000 années-lumière de nous une étoile âgée de 13,6 milliards d’anné…
Stellar archaeologists have found some very old stars, hidden in space like a pharoah’s tomb and holding secrets of the cosmos…
When the team that discovered the star collected the star's chemical fingerprints, the results were stunning, one team member…
When the team that discovered the star collected the star's chemical fingerprints, the results were stunning, one team member…
Talk about ancient. Astronomers from the Australian National University have discovered the oldest known star about 6,000 light-y…
Scientists pull a needle out of a haystack and identify a star that dates back to shortly after the Big Bang. [Read more]
Astronomer Stefan Keller with the SkyMapper Telescope Australian National University Astronomers announced yesterday that they…
Records for furthest, biggest and brightest are always being broken in astronomy, but one of the more intriguing records has…
A team of Australian astronomers say they have identified the oldest known star in our universe -- one that formed a mere 200…
Rekordentdeckung im All: In unserer Galaxie, der Milchstraße, haben Astronomen den ältesten Stern aufgespürt. Sein Licht stammt…
Er entstand nur 200 Millionen Jahre nach dem Urknall, ist nahe an der Erde und enthält fast kein Eisen: Astronomen beschreiben…
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The oldest star, located around 6,000 light years away from the Earth, formed shortly after the Big Bang, is discovered by a…
Finding the oldest stars is very much a needle in a haystack search. Our star was one of 60-million stars in our search and…
Eisenarmer Stern bildete sich aus einer der ersten Supernovae nach dem Urknall
There's no iron in this 13.6 billion-year-old fire It's a one-in-60-million search: a group of astronomers has turned up the…
The scientists reported the find in the journal Nature. They say it is the oldest known star, estimating it was formed 13.6…
Stefan Keller, Conversation The discovery of an ancient star formed 13.6-billion years ago just after the Big Bang is telling…
As the Big Bang’s name suggests, the universe burst into formation from an immense explosion, creating a vast soup of particles.
Australian astronomers on Sunday said they had found a star 13.6 billion years old, making it the most ancient star ever seen.
The discovery of an ancient star formed 13.7-billion years ago just after the Big Bang is telling us much about the early…
Australian astronomers on Sunday said they had found a star 13.6 billion years old, making it the most ancient star ever seen.
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IT AIN'T HEAVY: Astronomers have discovered the oldest known star, born in the fiery wake of a first generation supernova after…