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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe The element tellurium probably originated in exploding stars, or supernovae, through a process by which nuclei rapidly capture neutrons and

become heavier. Ian Roederer of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and his colleagues used the Hubble Space Telescope to detect signs of tellurium in three ancient stars in

the halo of the Milky Way. Tellurium is the heaviest element for which production by rapid neutron capture, called the _r_-process, can be predicted using laboratory data. This is a preview

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CITE THIS ARTICLE Rare element from space. _Nature_ 483, 8 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/483008b Download citation * Published: 29 February 2012 * Issue Date: 01 March 2012 * DOI:

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