VLT Update 8 {31st of August 2011}: The Star That Should Not Exist

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Featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110907.html
Press Release: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1132/

A team of European astronomers has used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to track down a star in the Milky Way that many thought was impossible. They discovered that this star is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, with only remarkably small amounts of other chemical elements in it. This intriguing composition places it in the "forbidden zone" of a widely accepted theory of star formation, meaning that it should never have come into existence in the first place. The results will appear in the 1 September 2011 issue of the journal Nature.

Credit: ESO
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