Earth’s Carbon Could Have Arrived Later In Its Formation From The Space Between Stars – IFLScience

Carbon is the crucial element for life as we know it, so understanding where it came from matters a lot if we hope to understand life in the universe. New research claims that the carbon that makes us came later in the formation of Earth. The idea and supporting evidence are reported in two studies, the first one published in Science Advances.
The Sun formed from a large cloud of gas and dust. In its early days, our star influenced this material to flatten out into a disk, from which eventually…

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