Intergalactic pollution

J. Michael Shull ()
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J. Michael Shull: University of Colorado at Boulder

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6688, 17-19

Abstract: We know that stars create heavy elements in their cores, and massive stars disperse these elements into space. But it is a surprise to discover these heavy elements in the low-density intergalactic medium, many millions of light years from the nearest galaxy clusters. A widespread generation of stars in the early Universe may have produced them, or they could have been ejected from galaxies with super-fast winds.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/27767

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