Wayne Eddy wrote: > >> OTOH, less supernovas means less "metals" :-) > > True, and also less Carbon and Oxygen. > That why I wrote "metals" and not metals. In the astrophysicists� jargon, anything heavier then Helium is a metal :-)
> But remember there would also be fewer sun-like stars. > The ratio would remain the same. > But a smaller galaxy might have just small stars, so there would be no planets. Our solar system is, at best, a second generation thing, since the planets are made of supernova remains. Alberto Monteiro
