4.3 days old moon
19.7 percent lit
November 5, 2018
By Michelle StarrI am assuming it was visualized with the James Webb Space Telescope which is to the right. (click here)
Whenever we hear of stars (click here) discovered that formed just after the Big Bang, they're very far away, in the far reaches of the visible Universe. But now astronomers have spotted something new: a star that's around 13.5 billion years old, right here in our own Milky Way galaxy....
...It's called 2MASS J18082002–5104378 B, and it could be one of the oldest stars in the Universe....And it's tiny - only about 10 percent of the mass of the Sun, right on the edge of the lower limit for hydrogen burning....
..."We've never discovered a star so low mass and made of so few grams of metals," astrophysicist Andrew Casey of Monash University in Australia told ScienceAlert....
