Astronomers have discovered an ancient stellar body gatecrashing a gathering of A hot, young stars. The interloper was found in a star-forming region located around 2,350 light years from Earth called NGC 2264. While such intruders have been observed before, the mixing of an old star and a grouping of young stars was unexpected. This is something scientists previously thought not to happen.
These findings may one day implicate our understanding of the journeys stars take across our universe and inform us on how stellar
