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Student Team Finds One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe that Migrated to the Milky Way


A class of undergraduate students at University of Chicago has used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to discover one of the oldest stars in the universe, a star that formed in a companion galaxy and migrated to the Milky Way.

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