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That’s one of the cooler charts I’ve ever seen thanks for sharing. It’s wild that elements from merging neutron stars like iridium and uranium could even find
by Mistletoe 3y ago
That’s one of the cooler charts I’ve ever seen thanks for sharing. It’s wild that elements from merging neutron stars like iridium and uranium could even find us here. Sends home how old the universe is.
- irrational 3y agoFind us here? Our solar system was created far far away from here. All the stuff that makes up our solar system was created by far older stars that long ago exploded and threw their material into space. Eventually some of that material coalesced into our Galaxy and our sun and planets.
- brabel 3y agoSo neutron stars collisions are actually responsible for a huge chunk of the elements in the periodic table!? Mind blowing. How did they end up on the solar system after that? What we've got is just the material ejected when such cataclysmic collisions happen?