The Students Who Found the Oldest Star: Top Photos

Two undergrads walked into an observatory on their first night and found the oldest star anyone has ever seen.

Part of the SMASH dataset showing an unprecedented wide-angle view of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and, unlike
An unprecedented wide-angle view of the Large Magellanic Cloud from the SMASH survey. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, directed by Juna Kollmeier, produced the data that allowed Natalie Orrantia to narrow several thousand candidate stars down to the 77 targets observed in Chile. © CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/SMASH/D. Nidever (Montana State University) Acknowledgment: Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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