Curium - 247 came
from nucleosynthesis in stars that lived and died before the solar system was born.
Not exact matches
«The origin of heavy elements produced in nature through rapid neutron capture («r - process») by seed nuclei is one of the current
nucleosynthesis mysteries,» Dr. Kenta Hotokezaka, Prof. Tsvi Piran and Prof. Michael Paul
from the Racah Institute of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said in their letter.
Then a series of lectures follow on their contributions to the
nucleosynthesis and chemical evolution of the Milky Way and dwarf galaxies in the local group and to the evolutionary characteristics of planet - hosting stars
from theoretical and observational viewpoints.
It is thought to have been produced in supernova
nucleosynthesis from the collision of two neutron stars and to have been present in the dust
from which the Solar System formed.
HEFT will map the hard X-ray emission
from supernova remnants to investigate issues of stellar
nucleosynthesis (through the mapping of radioactive Titanium) and study the origin and acceleration of cosmic - rays (through mapping the continuum hard X-rays produced in the same shocks that produce the cosmic - rays).