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Hmm. The Milky Way’s oldest stars are out of place

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Some of them, anyhow:

Using Australia’s SkyMapper Southern Survey, the team identified 475 stars with a [Fe/He] ratio less than one-thousandth that of our Sun. We would expect them to be halo stars, but when the team calculation the positions and orbits of these stars using data from Gaia they found that 11% of them orbit within the galactic plane. Their orbits are also very circular, similar to the orbit of the Sun. This is surprising and goes against predictions of current galactic evolution models.

Large sky surveys of our galaxy are certain to revolutionize our understanding of the Milky Way. As even these early results show, it is clear we still have much to learn.

Brian Koberlein, “Some of the Milky Way’s oldest stars aren’t where they’re expected to be” at Universe Today

Much to learn? Good place to begin! The paper is paywalled.

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Nice, can align w/ SPIRAL where well over 99% of all visible stellar objects where emitting light w/in 4/365(5781) a fraction of the start of the universe. reference SPIRAL's HTP stellar formation hypothesis in volume II of the YeC Moshe Emes series for Torah and science alignment..Pearlman
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Article: Intelligent Life Really Can't Exist Anywhere Else
Cosmic statisticians say the likelihood of life evolving on Earth is even less than we thought. Analysis suggests individual steps in evolution were more likely to take longer than Earth's existence.The scientists say this research is designed give future researchers a foundation. In newly published research from Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, scientists study the likelihood of key times for evolution of life on Earth and conclude that it would be virtually impossible for that life to evolve the same way somewhere else.
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“We would expect them to be halo stars, but when the team calculation the positions and orbits of these stars using data from Gaia they found that 11% of them orbit within the galactic plane.” “calculated”?jawa
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1 nail of many into Big Bang. When a theory no longer works based on new evidence, it can no longer be considered a valid theory.BobRyan
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