[6] SMSS J031300.36-670839.3 also has a much higher carbon supply compared to iron, more than a thousand times greater.

[6] Apart from hydrogen, which appeared in the Big Bang, the star also contains carbon, magnesium, and calcium, which could have been formed in a low-energy supernova.

[5] The star was discovered by a team led by Australian National University astronomers.

[7] The discovery was reported in Nature on 9 February 2014[1] and indicates that the supernovae of the population III stars may not have been as powerful as previously thought.

[6] The discovery was made possible by the SkyMapper,[7] a fully automated optical telescope at Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia.