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From stardust to pale blue dot: Carbon’s interstellar journey to Earth – Phys.org
We are made of stardust, the saying goes, and a pair of studies including University of Michigan research finds that may be more true than we previously thought….
We are made of stardust, the saying goes, and a pair of studies including University of Michigan research finds that may be more true than we previously thought.
The first study, led by U-M researcher Jie (Jackie) Li and published in Science Advances, finds that most of the carbon on Earth was likely delivered from the interstellar medium, the material that exists in space between stars in a galaxy. This likely happened well after the protoplanetary disk, the cloud of dust and gas that circled our…
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