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Originally Posted by OneOfOne
I must admit, I have asked myself the exact same question on a number of ocassions. I have never really read much in books or magazines either, just that they are low metalicity and very old (population II, never worked out why they call the older ones population II and the "galactic" one population I).
Thanks for the thoughts Les, makes a lot of sense.
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It is just a convention, well they have to call them somehow
There is also population III, theory says some of them should still be around but none of those are found yet.. They are stars that formed first after BB, from H and traces of He, no metals at all...