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Przybylski’s Star I: What’s that?
Jun. 14th, 2022 02:11 amhttps://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2017/03/15/przybylskis-star-i-whats-that/
Also here's part 2: https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2017/03/16/przybylskis-star-ii-abundance-anomalies/
And here's part 3: https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2017/03/16/przybylskis-star-iii-neutron-stars-unbinilium-and-aliens/
Recently I've been reading up on Przybylski's star, a bizarre star that seems to contain numerous transuranic radioactive elements that we don't believe should form in stars or even exist in such amounts in nature due to their fast decay rates. There have been a lot of proposals for why this might be (including aliens disposing of nuclear waste in the star), but so far there's not a strong consensus on what's going on with this star. Even if it's natural, it could teach us something truly transformational about our universe.
There's a lot of weird stuff out there in the universe, and sometimes I Iike to wonder about what it all means.
mirrored from my Pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/2749481
Also here's part 2: https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2017/03/16/przybylskis-star-ii-abundance-anomalies/
And here's part 3: https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2017/03/16/przybylskis-star-iii-neutron-stars-unbinilium-and-aliens/
Recently I've been reading up on Przybylski's star, a bizarre star that seems to contain numerous transuranic radioactive elements that we don't believe should form in stars or even exist in such amounts in nature due to their fast decay rates. There have been a lot of proposals for why this might be (including aliens disposing of nuclear waste in the star), but so far there's not a strong consensus on what's going on with this star. Even if it's natural, it could teach us something truly transformational about our universe.
There's a lot of weird stuff out there in the universe, and sometimes I Iike to wonder about what it all means.
mirrored from my Pillowfort: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/2749481
