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Przybylski's Star. A star that, based on its spectrum appears to have several elements in it that really shouldn't be there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybylski%27s_Star
“Przybylski's observations indicated unusually low amounts of iron and nickel in the star's spectrum, but higher amounts of unusual elements such as strontium, holmium, niobium, scandium, yttrium, caesium, neodymium, praseodymium, thorium, ytterbium, and uranium. In fact, at first Przybylski doubted that iron was present in the spectrum at all. Modern work shows that the iron group elements are somewhat below normal in abundance, but it is clear that the lanthanides and other exotic elements are highly over-abundant.”
Just read through the Wikipedia article on that star, that's insanely cool. I've never heard about this particular star before so that was a fun read.
Here's a good bit more in depth read about it, it is excellent
Thanks!
Edit: Finished reading the article, and it was great! Gonna be scrolling through that website tonight as my night reading before bed. Thanks again for the link!