Its been mined for millions of years by the people who lived in a planet in orbit around it who learned to mine their sun.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Man on Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > A faint star in the constellation of Leo (The Lion), called SDSS > J102915+172927 [1], has been found to have the lowest amount of elements > heavier than helium (what astronomers call "metals") of all stars yet > studied. It has a mass smaller than that of the Sun and is probably more > than 13 billion years old. > > "A widely accepted theory predicts that stars like this, with low mass and > extremely low quantities of metals, shouldn't exist because the clouds of > material from which they formed could never have condensed," [2] said > Elisabetta Caffau (Zentrum fur Astronomie der Universitat Heidelberg, > Germany and Observatoire de Paris, France), lead author of the paper. "It > was surprising to find, for the first time, a star in this 'forbidden zone', > and it means we may have to revisit some of the star formation models." > > Ref. http://www.sciencecodex.com/the_star_that_should_not_exist > > Kind regards, > > MoB > >
