Our Planet Is Travelling Through The Debris of Ancient Supernovae
Our Planet Is Travelling Through The Debris of Ancient Supernovae 21 APRIL 2021 Radioactive dust deep beneath the ocean waves suggests that Earth is moving through a massive cloud left behind by an exploded star. Continuously, for the last 33,000 years, space has been seeding Earth with a rare isotope of iron forged in supernovae. It's not the first time that the isotope, known as iron-60, has dusted our planet. But it does contribute to a growing body of evidence that such dusting is ongoing - we are still moving through an interstellar cloud of dust that could have originated from a su...
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