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A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

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A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...