Resumen de Superheavy elements may live in odd stars
Vladimir Dzuba at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and his colleagues think the oddball Przybylski's star could be harboring superheavy elements. A variable star some 370 light years away, it has unusually lithe iron or nickel. It is also the only star believed to contain short-lived elements called actinides, with atomic numbers ranging from 89 to 103. Dzuba argues that the actinides, whose signatures seem to be present in the stars spectrum, are a sign that the island of stability elements exist there. Their slow decay is what gives rise to the observed elements, he says: since actinides decay quickly relative to a star's lifetime, they ought to be gone unless there is some mechanism to replenish them.
