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Artist's impression of the first stars, 400 million years after the Big Bang. Image via Wikipedia.

Pushing the limit: scientists discover oldest known stars

byDragos Mitrica

Astronomers have discovered the oldest known stars lurking in a super-luminous galaxy - they may very well be among the ...

The spectrum of SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 hardly contains any absorption lines in its spectrum: the strong lines are from hydrogen, and carbon – at 4300A, and from the Earth atmosphere – at 5800 and 6300A; not from the star itself. Image credit: Anna Frebel.

Astronomers discover the oldest known star

February 10, 2014

A team led by astronomers at The Australian National University has discovered what they believe to be the oldest star ...

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