This sun isn't just metal-poor, it's metal-impoverished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inconstant Star]

This Poyolavomaar may be naught but a cluster of metal-poor villages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission to Moulokin]

Heaven IV is a metal-poor, rugged planet with a thick graduated atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Timegod's World]

Then, too, a planet like this, with a metal-poor core, has a weak mag - netic field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trader To The Stars]

I'm not sure, but it appears that the system is metal-poor, so you'll probably have to bring your own resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: Orientation] Reference

Indeed, the planetary core was overlaid by a shell of ice, mixed with rock, penetrated by tilted metal-poor strata.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Book of Stormgate]

Surveys over the past decade have failed to turn up any such extremely metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies, however.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second-Generation Star Supports Cannibal Theory of Milky Way | Universe Today] Reference

Could the ratio of metal-poor against metal-rich, younger stars tell us something about the age of dwarf galaxies ?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second-Generation Star Supports Cannibal Theory of Milky Way | Universe Today] Reference

Because they are products of stellar evolution, metals were rare in the early Universe, and so old stars tend to be metal-poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second-Generation Star Supports Cannibal Theory of Milky Way | Universe Today] Reference

If we could find real evidence of the first generation of stars or metal-poor stars, most astronomers believe we could understand this process better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second-Generation Star Supports Cannibal Theory of Milky Way | Universe Today] Reference

On most worlds these would have been dis'missed as nothing remarkable, but on metal-poor Tran-ky-ky they hinted at a vanished civilization of immense wealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission to Moulokin]

The team suspected that the methods used to find metal-poor stars in dwarf galaxies were biased in a way that caused the surveys to miss the most metal-poor stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second-Generation Star Supports Cannibal Theory of Milky Way | Universe Today] Reference

They typically have less than one thousandth the amount of chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium found in the Sun and are called “extremely metal-poor stars.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing Early Stars Found, With No Place Left to Hide | Universe Today] Reference

She was the first to demonstrate that metal-poor stars in the galactic halo (the faint sphere surrounding the galactic disk) have an overabundance of oxygen, relative to iron.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

Both types are metal-poor in comparison to population I stars found in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

The metal-poor stellar halo is the oldest extended structure in the Galaxy.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

We have hints that perhaps these are more common in more metal-poor systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astronomy Cast] Reference

As such, Type I clusters are referred to as "metal-rich" and Type II as "metal-poor".    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]

Measurements of thousands of stars have resulted in a generally established range from -4 (extremely metal-poor) to +1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Most stars that belong to this group are older, metal-poor stars that move in an eccentric orbit relative to the galactic plane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Green Pea galaxies are now known to be "metal-poor"; metals in this astronomical sense meaning any element other than hydrogen and helium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

Green Pea galaxies are now known to be "metal-poor" - metals in this astronomical sense meaning any element other than hydrogen and helium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astronomy.com - Astronomer unveils the mysteries of "Green Pea" galaxies] Reference

Further research of the halo in 2007 found that several metal-poor red giants stars are orbiting as part of the galactic halo as far out as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Previous attempts at main sequence fitting to metal-poor globular clusters have had to rely on theoretical calibrations of the color of the main sequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Pamela: It took time for the metals to build up, and we also think that when you have a more metal-poor system, it's easier to form extremely massive stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Astronomy Cast] Reference

Population II stars are metal-poor stars (negative values beyond -1), usually located in the bulge near to the center of spiral galaxies as well as the galactic halo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

They typically have less than one thousandth the amount of chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium found in the Sun and are called "extremely metal-poor stars".    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

'' 'Population II stars' '' are metal-poor stars (negative values beyond -1), usually located in the bulge near to the center of spiral galaxies as well as the galactic halo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Since it is known that metal-poor stars-stars having up to 100,000 times less metal than our Sun-exist in the Milky Way's halo, similar stars should be found in dwarf galaxies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ars Technica]

"Though not unusually old, the system is metal-poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]

Slightly dashed, he said, "No. Especially when most worlds in this frontier are comparatively metal-poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations]

"The arrival of the humans and their lifeboat of rare metal on metal-poor Tran-ky-ky served Redbeard well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission to Moulokin]

However, not unduly metal-poor, "as Diomedes is where I put her at stake for no more possible win than the damned Empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]

The survivors are metal-poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations]

Unfortunately, that world is metal-poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]

Although such stars may be as metal-poor as >.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

24 metal-poor globular clusters using main sequence fitting.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference