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A search for the first stars that winked into existence at the dawn of the Universe has yielded one of the oldest stars we've found yet, right next door to our own galaxy.
The first stars in the Universe didn't have a diverse range of materials to work with. They formed from the clouds of hydrogen and helium that coalesced in the early Universe in the wake of thefor the most massive stars, that started the production of the periodic table of elements in the Universe. The stars' violent explosions and collisions produced
To find extragalactic ancient stars, Chiti and his colleagues turned their attention to the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite of the Milky Way that orbits at a distance of. This is where they found LMC 119, a star so poor in heavier elements that it must be a member of the second generation of stars.
Interestingly, the team found in LMC 119 one of the answers they were looking for. It does differ in composition to the Milky Way second-generation stars – it has significantly less carbon and iron.
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