Space Health Environment Humans Tech Nature Physics Society Opinion Explainer About Us Our Team Follow Us Daily Newsletter Contact Privacy Privacy Manager Accessibility Terms 2024 ScienceAlert Pty Ltd Some of The Oldest Stars in The Universe Were Just Found Orbiting The Milky Way Space 18 May 2024 By Mark Thompson , Universe Today The Milky . Way Serge Brunier NASA Mention the Milky Way and most people will visualise a great big spiral galaxy billions of years old . It's thought to be a galaxy that took shape billions of years after the Big Bang Studies by astronomers have revealed that there are the echoes of an earlier time around . us A team of astronomers from MIT has found three ancient stars orbiting the Milky Way's halo . The team thinks these stars formed when the Universe was