1/2: #Lithium: It comes from binary systems going nova. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope

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1/2: #Lithium: It comes from binary systems going nova. Ken Croswell, Sky & Telescope
https://skyandtelescope.org/sky-and-telescope-magazine/inside-the-may-2022-issue/

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0:00.0	This is CBS Eye on the World.
0:08.0	Here's John Bachelorette.
0:10.0	I'm John Bachelorette.
0:12.0	Where does lithium come from?
0:14.0	Comes from the heavens.
0:16.0	That's right.
0:17.0	Comes from stars.
0:19.0	Special kinds of stars.
0:21.0	And to help me understand this,
0:23.0	I welcome Ken Croswell,
0:25.0	Dr. Ken Croswell, author of the Lives of Stars
0:28.0	and other distinguished publications.
0:30.0	He's an astronomer, writing a sky and telescope,
0:33.0	which is a wonderful magazine for obsessive people watching the sky.
0:38.0	And in an article of the little stars that Ken,
0:41.0	we need to do some history, some discovery here.
0:44.0	Ken, there are supernova,
0:46.0	they get all the attention in Hollywood movies.
0:49.0	Boom!
0:50.0	Destroying everything, and our heroes race away just in time
0:54.0	at the speed of lighter faster.
0:56.0	But simple nova or no-vee,
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