Under leaden skies: Where heavy metal clouds the stars
Thursday, August 1, 2013 - 07:00
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —In a paper shortly to be published in the Oxford University Press journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of astronomers from the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland report the discovery of two unusual stars with extremely high concentrations of lead in their atmospheres.