A sensational discovery was made by Japanese astronomers. Prints one of the oldest stars detected near the Milky Way.

Scientists found traces of, approximately, one of the oldest stars in the Universe, her remains were interspersed in the body of another stellar object in the halo of the milky Way. Scientists believe that some of the very first stars were hundreds of times greater than the Sun, but to this day, this assumption does not approved.

"Our discovery is evidence of the existence of such huge stars. Similar objects have had a huge impact on the formation of other stars and galaxies in the Universe" - quoted by the journal Science, where it was published opening, one of the authors of the study WAKO Aoki from the National astronomical Observatory of Japan.

The remains of the heavenly bodies, which housed a thousand light-years from Earth, were found in the composition of the star population III with a telescope "Subaru (Subaru). The object was named SDSS J0018-0939.

Star has an unusual chemical composition, and specifically by information scientists can learn about the factors that led to the formation of the heavenly bodies, says RIA Novosti. Taking into account the opinion of the researchers, age of the star can be about 13 billion years since the Big Bang, after which started a rapid expansion of the Universe, occurred 13.8 billion years ago.
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