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Singing stars give away their age

Astroseismologists from the University of Birmingham have studied a star in our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is older and bigger than our Sun and has certain characteristics that signify its age and internal properties, according to a paper in the Astrophysical Journal, announced at a NASA press conference on Tuesday 26th October 2010, in Aarhus, Denmark.

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