Ancient Stars Found in Disk

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Group of ancient stars spotted near the sun could rewrite the Milky Way's history

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Some of our Milky Way's stars are more than 13 billion years old.

The discovery was made using data collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft.

The presence of 13 billion-year-old stars in our galaxy's thin disk means the disk must have formed in the first billion years following the birth of the universe.

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