Astronomers Find Fossils of Early Universe Stuffed in Milky Way’s Bulge

By Brandon Specktor Astronomers peered into the dusky bulge of the Milky Way and found some of the oldest known stars in the universe. In a study to be published in the April 2019 issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers analyzed a cluster of old, dim stars called HP1, located about 21,500 …