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Oldest Carbon-rich Stars Open a Window to Early Cosmic Chemistry


Astronomers studying the ultra-faint dwarf galaxy Pictor II have found an extremely chemically peculiar star that contains traces of elements created by the first stars in the Universe. It's called PicII-503, a

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