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Elemental abundances across cosmic time

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The chemical composition of a massive galaxy in the early Universe reveals an extremely short period of star formation. This result could challenge our ideas about the evolution of galaxies and of the Universe itself. See Letter p.248

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Figure 1: Star formation cut short.

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  1. Chiaki Kobayashi is in the Centre for Astrophysics Research, School of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield AL10 9AB, UK.,

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Kobayashi, C. Elemental abundances across cosmic time. Nature 540, 205–206 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/540205a

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