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Milky Way’s Thin Disk Formed Less Than One Billion Years from Big Bang, New Study Suggests


Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found a large number of metal-poor stars older than 13 billion years on orbits similar to that of our Sun.

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