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.

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