The Milky Way's 'thick disk' is 2 billion years older than scientists thought - Livescience.com

The thick disk began forming stars just 0.8 billion years after the Big Bang.

Misjudging someone's age can be awkward… especially when you're off by a few billion years. That may be the case with our Milky Way galaxy, research published March 23 in the journal Nature sugg… [+4081 chars]

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