How to Get a Star to Reveal Her Age
For many movie stars, their age is a well-kept secret. The same is true for stars in space. Like our Sun, most stars look almost the same for most of their lives. So how can we tell if a star is one billion or 10 billion years old? Astronomers may have found a promising new method called "gyrochronology" - measuring a star's spin.
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