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Stories about: metallicity

Hubble Finds Distant Galaxy, Sparks New Mystery There's a reason why the Hubble telescope was placed in orbit around Earth, and it's a pretty good one too. The lack of any interference from the planet's atmosphere allows it to see objects that modern ground-based telescopes probably never will - such as a newly discovered galaxy that seems to be fil... 9 July 2008 02:54 GMT Galactic Map Shows the Chemical Composition of the Milky Way The most detailed map of the chemical composition of the galaxy we live in has been recently released by the research team of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, after completing the study of a population of stars extending on a radius of more than 30,000 light years around the Sun. "This compilation of the compositions of... 13 June 2008 09:47 GMT Drifting Star Linked to Birthplace Iota Horologii is a yellow-orange star, located about 56 light-years away from Earth, in the Horologium constellation, and one of a large population of stars drifting through the Milky Way in the same general direction. New observations conducted with the help of one of ESO's 3.6 meter telescopes proved that in ... 16 April 2008 03:45 GMT