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Population I

A Dictionary of Astronomy | 1997 | 372 words | Copyright

Population I Those stars that, like the Sun, lie in the disk of our Galaxy and follow roughly circular orbits around its centre. They have a high content of heavy elements and have probably been formed continuously during the lifetime of the disk, from gas enriched by the debris from supernovae in Population II stars. See also disk population; extreme population i star.

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