Not only does the star have less metal content than our Sun, but it is also the most iron-poor known star.

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature Astronomy. The original story “ Pristine star reveals the dawn ...

A team of astronomers believe they may have found the most "pristine" star in the universe to date. According to the team, ...

The discovery, published in Nature Astronomy, offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of ancient stars and how they ...

A group of scientists, including a class of undergraduate students at the University of Chicago, has discovered the most ...

Found in an ultrafaint dwarf galaxy, the ancient star’s unusual chemistry indicates it formed from gas enriched by a single ...

An unusual team of astronomers used Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V (SDSS-V) data and observations on the Magellan telescopes at ...

A group of undergraduate students stumbled into a cosmic time capsule—one of the oldest stars ever discovered—while combing ...

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

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