Meanings
- Clipped compound of Population II.
Like Pop III stars, Pop II stars contain a relative dearth of heavy elements; however, they do contain some.
2019 November 9, Jake Parks, “The universe's first supernovae spewed jets of material into nearby galaxies”, in Astronomy Magazine, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2022
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Pop II. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Pop%20II
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