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FILE – The Milky Way appears over the Valle de la Luna in the Atacama Desert, considered the driest place on Earth, near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Three undergraduate students in an astronomy class ...

Anna Frebel can’t explain her fascination with the stars. It’d be like explaining why “berry purple-pink” is one of her favorite colors. “They are just a part of me,” says Frebel, an astronomer at MIT ...

Researchers at MIT found three of the oldest stars in the universe orbiting around the outskirts of the Milky Way Galaxy, according to a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Reporting in Nature, researchers write of discovering one of the oldest stars in the Galaxy, formed some 13 billion years ago. But one current theory of star formation rules out stars of this chemical ...

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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 ...

This past February, Anna Frebel and her colleagues announced the discovery of what may be the oldest known star. On a clear night, even an amateur astronomer might be able to train a strong telescope ...

AUSTIN – How old are the oldest stars? An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Anna Frebel of The University of Texas at Austin McDonald Observatory recently measured the age of an ancient ...

How old are the oldest stars? Using ESO’s VLT, astronomers recently measured the age of a star located in our Galaxy. The star, a real fossil, is found to be 13.2 billion years old, not very far from ...

THE STUDY “Discovery of HE 1523-0901, a Strongly r-Process-Enhanced Metal-Poor Star With Detected Uranium,” by Anna Frebel et al., The Astrophysical Journal, May 10, 2007. THE MOTIVE How do you ...