![Abundance ratios of oxygen, magnesium and silicon relative to iron for the five stars in the bulge discovered by APOGEE (black filled circles) and literature values for other populations in the bulge (open circles), halo (squares), thin disk (crosses) and Abundance ratios of oxygen, magnesium and silicon relative to iron for the five stars in the bulge discovered by APOGEE (black filled circles) and literature values for other populations in the bulge (open circles), halo (squares), thin disk (crosses) and](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/news/resultados112_117.jpg?itok=fT83k3f3)
Despite its importance for understanding the nature of early stellar generations and for constraining Galactic bulge formation models, at present little is known about the metal-poor stellar content of the central Milky Way. This is a consequence of the great distances involved and intervening dust obscuration, which challenge optical studies. However, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE), a wide-area, multifiber, high-resolution spectroscopic survey within Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), is exploring the chemistry of all Galactic stellar populations
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