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Dust-shrouded Milky Way star cluster may be nearly as old as the universe
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. Phys.org Breaking News is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 2 Nov 2026, 11:40 UTC. The headline in use is “Dust-shrouded Milky Way star cluster may be nearly as old as the universe”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Astronomers have determined that VVV CL001, a metal-poor globular cluster near the center of the Milky Way, is about 13. 4 billion years old, making it one of the oldest known star clusters in our galaxy.
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Dust-shrouded Milky Way star cluster may be nearly as old as the universe
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