{"id":234515,"date":"2026-04-03T01:57:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/first-carbon-enhanced-metal-poor-stars-discovered-in-milky-ways-companion"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:57:44","slug":"first-carbon-enhanced-metal-poor-stars-discovered-in-milky-ways-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/first-carbon-enhanced-metal-poor-stars-discovered-in-milky-ways-companion","title":{"rendered":"First carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars discovered in Milky Way\u2019s companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-carbon-enhanced-metal-poor-stars-discovered-in-milky-ways-companion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the Baryons Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) spectrograph, astronomers have discovered five new carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This is the first time such stars have been identified in this galaxy. The discovery was reported in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2601.10514\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> January 15 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> pre-print server.<\/p>\n<p>Metal-poor stars are rare objects, as only a few thousand stars with iron abundances [Fe\/H] below-2.0 have been discovered to date. Expanding the still-short list of metal-poor stars is of high importance for astronomers, as such objects have the potential to improve our knowledge of the chemical evolution of the universe.<\/p>\n<p>Observations show that a significant fraction of these stars exhibit a large <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-04-metal-poor-stars-fossils-universe.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">overabundance of carbon<\/a>; therefore, they are known as carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Baryons Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) spectrograph, astronomers have discovered five new carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This is the first time such stars have been identified in this galaxy. The discovery was reported in a paper published January 15 on the arXiv pre-print server. Metal-poor stars are rare objects, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234515","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}