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Re:Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates by Qem on Saturday May 18, 2024 @09:56PM (#40403560)
> My very uneducated guess was that two planet-like objects smashed, and there is some cloud around the star which gave those weird spectrographs?

Another guess: it got close to a neutron star merger, and was showered with high atomic number debris. Heavy elements can be produced in mergers of such stars.

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Re:Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates by consumer451 on Saturday May 18, 2024 @10:08PM (#40403615)
Something which might align with this guess is that this type of star apparently has an extremely strong magnetic field which could trap, and excite those particles?

However, assuming that it's not misidentification, would it be fair to say that new physics would have to be discovered to explain things like Americium and Einsteinium?

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Re:Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates by Qem on Sunday May 19, 2024 @08:09AM (#40406389)
> One such theory is that the star contains some long-lived nuclides from the island of stability (such as 298Fl or 304Ubn) and that the observed short-lived actinides are the daughters of these progenitors, occurring in secular equilibrium with their parents.
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Re:Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates by consumer451 on Sunday May 19, 2024 @08:25AM (#40406473)
Yes, thanks. So "the island of stability" is currently only predicted. [0]

This star appears to be so exciting. Whatever the answer is, it is going to push the boundaries of knowledge.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability

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