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ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News

ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planets News


Sun-like stars reveal their ages

Posted: 10 Jul 2014 10:10 AM PDT

A new technique for measuring the age of a star using its spin -- gyrochronology -- is coming into its own. Today astronomers are presenting the gyrochronological ages of 22 sun-like stars. Before this, only two sun-like stars had measured spins and ages.

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