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April 3, 2016
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? .... When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
It's a puzzle for the team that found it, led by Souza Oliveira Kepler from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. "What happened to all these light elements?" he told William Herkewitz at Popular Mechanics. "How did they all get stripped away?" The answer isn't entirely clear, but astronomers have long speculated that elements being stripped from a star's surface over time could be a possibility. If that's what's happened here, SDSS J124043.01 671034.68 (or 'Dox' as the researchers have nicknamed it) is the first evidence of the phenomenon taking place.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 3, 2016 6:27 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.