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Astronomers Find 12- to 13-Billion-Year-Old Stars in Milky Way’s Halo


Astronomers at MIT have discovered thee extremely ancient stars in the Milky Way’s halo, a cloud of stars that envelopes the entire main Galactic disk.

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