Large Amounts of Oxygen Detected in Ancient Star's Atmosphere
Friday, January 24, 2020 - 14:40
in Astronomy & Space
An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and most elementally depleted stars known--a primitive star scientists call "J0815+4729."