2026-04-08 23:06:51
A nearly pristine #star from the Large Magellanic Cloud: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21643 -> A class of undergraduate students at University of Chicago has used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to discover one of the oldest stars in the universe, a star that formed in a companion galaxy and migrated to the Milky Way: https://www.sdss.org/ancient-immigrant/ and https://carnegiescience.edu/found-most-pristine-star-universe