- How did the universe's elements form? https://www.space.com/how-did-universe-elements-form?lrh=b176200b67008f8d7c0173dfcc0d40de3f5abca649d5de64a5e277a598ce5405 25 comments space
- For the 1st time, a freshly made heavy element, strontium, has been detected in space, in the aftermath of a merger of two neutron stars. This confirms that the heavier elements in the Universe can form in neutron star mergers, providing a missing piece of the puzzle of chemical element formation. https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1917/ 71 comments science
- We May Finally Know How the Universe's Heavy Elements Formed https://www.space.com/strontium-heavy-element-formed-neutron-star-merger.html 3 comments space
- Planets found at dawn of universe, but their existence is a mystery -- Scientists have found two planets orbiting a star that formed only a billion years after the big bang. But the universe had few planet-making elements then, so how did the planets form? http://www.csmonitor.com/science/2012/0330/planets-found-at-dawn-of-universe-but-their-existence-is-a-mystery 130 comments science
- The discovery of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of gas enabled astronomers to perform the earliest-ever measurement of how the universe was enriched with a diversity of chemical elements. The findings reveal that the first generation of stars formed more quickly than previously thought. https://scitechdaily.com/discovery-of-ancient-cosmic-gas-cloud-reveals-the-universes-first-stars-formed-quickly/ 8 comments science