Monday, April 29, 2019

What a dying star's ashes tell us about the birth of our solar system

Researchers discovered a dust grain forged in a stellar explosion before our solar system was born. Atom-level analysis of the specimen reveals new insights about how stars end their lives and seed the universe with the building blocks of new stars and planets.

from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2XTEWO4
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