Yahoo! News – Scientists Find Possible Dawn-Of-Time Star
LONDON (Reuters) – A group of scientists has discovered a distant star that could date back to the beginning of the Universe.
The giant star, HE0107-5240, is a galactic rarity because it is virtually metal-free unlike the other, more modern known stars, they wrote in the science journal Nature…
…At the dawn of time these stars contained most of the elements in the Universe.
But quite early in its history these nuclear furnaces began to convert the lighter elements into heavier ones like carbon, phosphorous and lead — collectively known as metals.
Just what we needed–a “metal-free star.” That means someone could probably sneak it past the metal-detectors at security checkpoints. And don’t forgot–these stars are nuclear!
(Note: This entry is from my second attempt at a blog, called Spundit.com, and has been transferred here for historical purposes.)