All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation 06/10/2020 | 2 MINS Astronomers from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today. ΓÇ£Stars can be thought of as enormous nuclear-powered processing plants,ΓÇ¥ said lead researcher Dr Sabine Bellstedt, from ICRAR. ΓÇ£They take lighter elements like hydrogen and helium, and, over billions of years, produce the heavier elements of the periodic table that we find scattered throughout the Universe today. ΓÇ£The carbon, calcium and iron in your body, the oxygen in the air you breathe, and the silicon in your computer all exist because a star created these heavier elements and left them behind,ΓÇ¥ Bellstedt said. ΓÇ£Stars are the ultimate element factories in the Universe.ΓÇ¥ Understanding how galaxies formed stars billions of years ago requires the very diffic
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation 06/10/2020 | 2 MINS Astronomers from Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today.
ΓÇ£Stars can be thought of as enormous nuclear-powered processing plants,ΓÇ¥ said lead researcher Dr Sabine Bellstedt, from ICRAR.
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ΓÇ£They take lighter elements like hydrogen and helium, and, over billions of years, produce the heavier elements of the periodic table that we find scattered throughout the Universe today.
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ΓÇ£The carbon, calcium and iron in your body, the oxygen in the air you breathe, and the silicon in your computer all exist because a star created these heavier elements and left them behind,ΓÇ¥ Bellstedt said.
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ΓÇ£Stars are the ultimate element factories in the Universe.ΓÇ¥ Understanding how galaxies formed stars billions of years ago requires the very diffic
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