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Heavy-Metal Stars
The 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind. They are enriched with much higher proportions of metals than stars found in similar clusters.
—NASA Goddard, USA
The 10.5-billion-year-old globular cluster, NGC 6496, is home to heavy-metal stars of a celestial kind. They are enriched with much higher proportions of metals than stars found in similar clusters.
—NASA Goddard, USA