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.

This is a direct image of SN1987A, flanked by two nearby stars. The distance between these two is 4.5 arcsec. This reproduction is from a 2-min exposure through a R(ed) filter with the FORS1 multi-mo
A direct image of SN 1987A, the famous supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud. SDSS J0715-7334 formed in that same galaxy's halo, born from gas touched by only one or two supernovae of the very first generation of stars. © Osservatorio Europeo australe, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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