{"id":167074,"date":"2023-07-07T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/found-stars-over-12-billion-years-at-the-heart-of-our-galaxy"},"modified":"2023-07-07T10:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T15:26:32","slug":"found-stars-over-12-billion-years-at-the-heart-of-our-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/found-stars-over-12-billion-years-at-the-heart-of-our-galaxy","title":{"rendered":"Found: Stars Over 12 Billion Years At The Heart Of Our Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/found-stars-over-12-billion-years-at-the-heart-of-our-galaxy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found a group of ancient stars orbiting close to the center of our galaxy that may have formed in just the first billion years of the universe. That\u2019s news because old stars are generally only found around the very edges of the Milky Way within the 150+ globular clusters\u2014also called \u201cgalactic wanderers\u201d\u2014which may be linked to supermassive stars.<\/p>\n<p>The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS), which reported their results at this week\u2019s National Astronomy Meeting 2023 at Cardiff University in Wales, UK, were looking near the galaxy\u2019s center because galaxy formation models suggest that there ought to be ancient stars there\u2014though very few have ever been seen before.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Most ancient stars we know of are found around the halo of our Milky Way galaxy, but a new study has discovered many close to the galaxy\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found a group of ancient stars orbiting close to the center of our galaxy that may have formed in just the first billion years of the universe. That\u2019s news because old stars are generally only found around the very edges of the Milky Way within the 150+ globular clusters\u2014also called \u201cgalactic wanderers\u201d\u2014which may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}