Posted on 09/07/2011 1:17:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Why does this star have so few heavy elements? Stars born in the generation of our Sun have an expected abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium mixed into their atmospheres. Stars born in the generation before our Sun, Population II stars, the stars that created most of the heavy elements around us today, are seen to have some, although less, elements heavier than H and He. Furthermore, even the elusive never-seen first stars in the universe, so-called Population III stars, are predicted to have a large mass and a small but set amount of heavy elements. Yet low-mass Milky Way star SDSS J102915+172927, among others, appears to have less metals than ever predicted for any stars, including at least 50 times less lithium than came out of the Big Bang. The unusual nature of this star, initially cataloged by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and pictured above, was discovered by detailed spectroscopic observations by a large VLT telescope in Chile. Many models of star formation indicate that such a star should not even form. Research is ongoing, however, with one leading hypothesis holding that fragile primordial lithium was destroyed in the star's hot core.
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It would be cool if there were a Religion Forum for posts like yours.
Low on lithium???? Time for the old shock treatment then.
What religion,there is no religion called God.
Granted,like Darwinism,there is no concrete empirical data that takes Him out of the “theory” column but then Darwiniacs aren't consigned to any “religion” forum either, are they?
Well I owe my wife a dollar. I said that you were smart enough to understand my post.
She said that you weren’t.
Just damn.
Well, we have doubled down. I said that you can’t post anything stupider than your last post and she said, “Wait and see.”
My aren’t you (and spouse) sounding proud of your imbecility.
Obviously you contracted a stupidity STD from some dumb bimbo and then infected your wife.
So it’s on—but please, try a comeback that doesn’t sound like Potsy Weber..
(Remember FRiend,you started the personal attacks;)
BTW,your original post sounded snarky—you could have just said I misunderstood it without getting all insulting.
Well, she is two dollars richer.
A religious post on a science thread makes as much sense as the idiots who click onto a TV thread just to announce like a smug liberal hippy that they don’t have a TV.
Understand now?
Isn’t he a black hole, where everything is consumed and nothing leaves?
Does your leftist hate for the,to many,scientific concept of intelligent design give you the right to be?..and a real jerk to boot?..
no wait,that last one comes to you naturally...
and the wife you rode in on.
LOL!
Now she has three bucks. You went from stupid to non-English speaking blithering idiot.
You are paying out like a slot machine!
You really are Potsy Weber.
Ralph always said you were king of the lame comeback;)
Four bucks.
Probably going to have to take out a loan.
If you are paid for what you know Potsy,then you would require financng if more than four dollars is needed.
Game-Set-Match!!!
If you are paid for what you know Potsy,then you would require financng if more than four dollars is needed.
Game-Set-Match!!!
Five bucks.
Six bucks.
Damn, a twofer by the main brain!
LOL!
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