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.

ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array) space observatory, Atacama desert, Chile
The ALMA observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. The Chilean Andes host some of the world's most powerful telescopes, and it was this landscape that Professor Ji chose for his Field Course in Astrophysics — a course he scrapped and rebuilt after the first night's discovery. © Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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