{"id":139417,"date":"2022-05-16T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T17:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/rapid-neutron-capture-astronomers-discover-gold-standard-star-in-milky-way"},"modified":"2022-05-16T12:03:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T17:03:16","slug":"rapid-neutron-capture-astronomers-discover-gold-standard-star-in-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/rapid-neutron-capture-astronomers-discover-gold-standard-star-in-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Neutron Capture: Astronomers Discover \u201cGold Standard\u201d Star in Milky Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rapid-neutron-capture-astronomers-discover-gold-standard-star-in-milky-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers led by University of Michigan\u2019s Ian Roederer and including Carnegie\u2019s Erika Holmbeck have identified the widest range of elements yet observed in a star beyond our own Sun. Their findings will be published in <em>The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers identified 65 elements in the star, which is called HD 222925. Of these, 42 are from the bottom of the periodic table. Their identification will help astronomers better understand rapid neutron capture process \u2014 one of the main methods by which the universe\u2019s heavy elements were created.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the best of my knowledge, that\u2019s a record for any object beyond our Solar System. And what makes this star so unique is that it has a very high relative proportion of the elements listed along the bottom two-thirds of the periodic table. We even detected gold,\u201d explained Roederer, a former Carnegie postdoc. \u201cThese elements were made by the rapid neutron capture process. That\u2019s really the thing we\u2019re trying to study: the physics in understanding how, where and when those elements were made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of astronomers led by University of Michigan\u2019s Ian Roederer and including Carnegie\u2019s Erika Holmbeck have identified the widest range of elements yet observed in a star beyond our own Sun. Their findings will be published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. The researchers identified 65 elements in the star, which is called HD [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}