Where Your Elements Came From
Image Credit & License: Wikipedia: Cmglee; Data: Jennifer Johnson (OSU)
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Image Credit & License: Wikipedia: Cmglee; Data: Jennifer Johnson (OSU)
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230108.html #APOD
APOD: 2023 January 8 – Where Your Elements Came From
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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in reply to Astronomy Picture of the Day • • •So I googled it and discovered that material is still ejected in an event called a "kilonova". So named because its peak brightness is about 1000 times that of a typical nova.
It's impossible to imagine the energy involved in events like that.
#elements #nova #gravity #kilonova #neutronstars #periodictable
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in reply to Astronomy Picture of the Day • • •Carl Sagan 👉 we all are made of stardust
i think this is even more exciting than any religious myth of creation
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in reply to Astronomy Picture of the Day • • •https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsta.2019.0301
#Nucleogenesis #Nucleosynthesis #OriginOfTheElements
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in reply to Astronomy Picture of the Day • • •https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_element#/media/File:Nucleosynthesis_periodic_table.svg
TLDR; The undescribed "brown" is "Human synthesis" or "No stable isotopes"
species of atoms having the same number of protons in the atomic nucleus and the same chemical properties, but not nessarily the same mass, or the same stability (or half-lifetime if they are unstable)
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Planetarium (EN)Peter Widmayer
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in reply to Astronomy Picture of the Day • • •That is, it's formed within the Earth's crust and core through decay of radioactive elements --- heavy stuff such as uranium, thorium, and plutonium naturally occurring. These give off beta particles --- a pair of protons and neutrons, which capture electrons and emerge as helium gas, a/k/a helium-4. Most of what humans capture is trapped in natural gas deposits and is recovered as part of the processing of gas wells.
So we get the second-most-abundant element in the Universe which is normally created from the Big Bang directly or stellar fusion through the long round-trip of neutron-star collisions and geological processes.
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