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Researchers at MIT found three of the oldest stars in the universe orbiting around the outskirts of the Milky Way Galaxy,cq according to a study published last week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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The scientists studied 91 pairs of stars and were surprised to discover that about 8 per cent of these pairs, about one in 12, have displayed the signs of engulfing a planet.