Re: Intelligent signals from globular clusters?


<pbackus@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1124387530.099214.115690@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Perhaps you should learn about "conventional wisdom" be for engaging in
> unnecessary speculation. The clusters formed with stars having a range
> of masses. The ones much more massive than the Sun have evolved,
> leaving stars with a solar mass or less. The more massive stars are
> now neutron stars and white dwarfs.
>

Hi Peter,

Is there anything known about what happened to the dust / gas from the novas
that created the neutron stars / white dwarfs ?
Common sense could suggest that (since there are so many stars in a
small amount of space of a cluster) this gas was captured and formed
dust disks around the million star systems still remaining in the cluster.
Since that dust is metallic, isn't it possible that planetary systems formed from it ?
Around old, metallic-poor stars that is...

Rob


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