• Question: What is the youngest star you have ever found?

    Asked by g30rg1n4 to Nick on 18 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Nick Wright

      Nick Wright answered on 18 Mar 2014:


      I found a star once that we think is only a few thousand years old, which is really young for stars because they mostly live for millions or billions of years. In fact this star was still growing because it was so young so it hadn’t even fully formed yet! You could compare it to a baby, in fact it was a baby star!

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