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Scientists believe they’ve found the origins of ‘space gold’ – The Next Web
Neutron star collisions were thought to make much of the gold in the Universe, but something else is making a lot of the precious metal…
In 2017, astronomers witnessed a collision …
When atoms first formed after the Big Bang, only hydrogen and helium (together with a smattering of lithium) were produced. Everything else was forged in the nuclear furnaces of massive stars, or in the titanic explosions of stellar supernovae.
Stars like the Sun spend most of their lives balanced between gravitational forces pulling the body inward and the outward push of thermonuclear reactions at its core.
In a little over four billion years, our Sun will run out of available hydrogen and w…
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