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...Previously, nobody had found any stars in the dwarf galaxies that looked very much like the most metal-poor stars in the Milky Way halo,” said Joshua D. Simon, a researcher at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and one of the study’s authors. “It was reasonable to wonder if maybe they didn’t exist...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Star Nearly As Old As Universe Found | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...after hours of stargazing and spectroscopic measurements, a star in a distant dwarf galaxy called the Sculptor Galaxy has proven to be chemically similar to several stars found in the Milky Way halo...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Star Nearly As Old As Universe Found | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...looks like many dwarf galaxies got shredded and deposited their stars in the halo of the Milky Way,” Frebel said...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Star Nearly As Old As Universe Found | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

Using the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, Kirby set out to find evidence of metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies by scanning the skies using medium-resolution spectroscopy, which allowed him to study many stars but didn’t yield a detail-rich characterization of any one star...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Star Nearly As Old As Universe Found | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

Frebel is back in Chile this week continuing the same line of research, hoping to find even more metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Star Nearly As Old As Universe Found | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

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