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According to Simon, previous methods of detecting metal-poor stars proved less useful the more metal-poor the star was.
Finding a more accurate way to obtain these measurements was the subject of Kirby’s PhD thesis.
He then offered the coordinates of this star to Frebel, who departed for Chile to take a closer look with the Magellen-Clay Telescope using high-resolution spectroscopy. Though this kind of spectroscopy takes much longer, it provides more details about the “personality” of the...
Astronomy professor Abraham “Avi” Loeb, who is writing a book about how the first galaxies were created, called Frebel a pioneer, and said he believes this research puts the theory that the galaxy was formed out of small building blocks “on more...
Frebel is back in Chile this week continuing the same line of research, hoping to find even more metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies.