Kevin Schlaufman Discovers One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe

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Assistant Professor Kevin Schlaufman was recently featured on The Hub for his recently published paper, “An Ultra Metal-poor Star Near the Hydrogen-burning Limit” in The Astrophysical Journal.

Schlaufman and co-authors have discovered a star that could be one of the oldest in the universe—at 13.5 billion years old, it could be as little as one generation distance from the Big Bang.

Read the full article on The Hub.