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Stars kinda famously fuse elements up to iron as part of normal operations. And even if you exclude that, the entire solar system is leftovers from a previous

by Groxx 6mo ago

Stars kinda famously fuse elements up to iron as part of normal operations. And even if you exclude that, the entire solar system is leftovers from a previous star - all that is inside our current star too. Sure, much of it isn't at the surface, but there's not much of a reason to expect that literally zero of it randomly floats up among the lighter elements. Have a reference tho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind

JumpCrisscross 6mo ago
That said, "heavy ions and atomic nuclei of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, magnesium, silicon, sulfur, and iron" makes up only "trace amounts" of the solar-wind plasma [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind
L_226 6mo ago
> our current star Looking forward to seeing the next one!
- ygra 6mo ago
  We first need to get rid of the current one in a few billion years. That won't end well for Earth, though.
  - Groxx 6mo ago
    Earth is just part of the same recycling collection plan, it's fine.