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Today you learn about how scientists trace some of Earth's heaviest elements to an ancient star collision.

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Scientists have traced some of Earth's heaviest elements

to an ancient star collision.

Not only does this new research shed a bright light on the early days of our solar

system, but after you hear this story you may never look at your gold or platinum

wedding ring the same way again. As reported by universe today, scientists have theorized for about a century

that the metals in our universe are here thanks to stellar nucleosynthesis. The theory

says that after the first stars formed,

their interior heat and pressure

led to the creation of heavier elements like silicon and iron.

Those elements enriched future generations of stars

and provided material that helped form our planets.

And more recent work has suggested that some of the heaviest elements could actually be the result

of binary stars merging.

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