Using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and elsewhere have discovered a new extremely r-process-enhanced star in the Milky Way's thin disk. The finding was reported in a research paper published July 16 on the pre-print server arXiv. The... read full story
"It was originally selected from the LAMOST medium-resolution survey as a candidate RPE star, based on its unusually strong lines of europium,"