Sunfish
30-07-2020, 08:40 AM
Abstract from the article based on work at Siding Springs
The tidal remnant of an unusually metal-poor globular cluster
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2483-6
https://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-scientists-discover-dying-building-block-of-milky-way-20200729-p55gin.html
"This new result is indeed exciting and significant," said Professor Richard de Grijs, a Macquarie University astrophysicist who was not involved in the research.
If the Phoenix stream really was a building block of the Milky Way, "that is exciting, because such objects would be composed of the earliest stars formed in the universe," he said.
The tidal remnant of an unusually metal-poor globular cluster
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2483-6
https://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-scientists-discover-dying-building-block-of-milky-way-20200729-p55gin.html
"This new result is indeed exciting and significant," said Professor Richard de Grijs, a Macquarie University astrophysicist who was not involved in the research.
If the Phoenix stream really was a building block of the Milky Way, "that is exciting, because such objects would be composed of the earliest stars formed in the universe," he said.