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A ‘Modern’ Star from the Early Universe Discovered–"Like finding an iPad in Caesar’s Rome"

September 3rd, 2011

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When Lorenzo Monaco of the European Southern Observatory in Chile and colleagues examined the elemental composition of an oddball star, prosaically named SDSS J102915+172927, they must have felt like an archeologist who discovers an iPad in Caesar's Rome.  It has a mass smaller than that of the Sun and is probably more than 13 billion years old.


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