They came from first -
generation exploded star debris.
Not exact matches
The first phrases talk about creating the Heavens and the Earth and yet the Earth didn't exist until ~ 9 billion years after the «Heavens», in fact couldn't have existed until a few
generations of
stars burned and
exploded.
The vast distances to the galaxies and thick shrouds of dust blocked a view of the inevitable climax: supernovas
exploding in rapid succession as each
generation of giant
stars dies out.
The implication: Some first -
generation or progenitor
stars exploded evenly, as expected, but others must have somehow held onto iron during their death throes while allowing lighter metals to spread out into space.
They blazed brilliantly, but within just a few million years they burned out and
exploded, spewing heavy elements that helped seed the formation of succeeding
generations of
stars and planets.
When massive
stars explode as supernovae, they disperse the heavier elements they have built into space, where they become the building blocks of the next
generation of
stars.
originate from fusion reactions in the heart of
stars and are spewed out when those
stars explode as supernovae, the relatively high metallicity of the galaxy suggests that it had already seen the birth and death of
generations of
stars by the time the universe was 700 million years old.»
Because its
stars contain heavy elements, it must have formed after
generations of other
stars somehow evolved, lived through their life cycle, and
exploded.
The second process relies on the fact that
stars also contain smaller amounts of carbon produced in previous
generations of
stars that
exploded as supernovas.
c. Recollect, somehow, enough of that
exploded debris — presumably containing heavy elements — to form second
generation stars.
Second
generation stars do not just burn hydrogen, they also burn heavier elements, like helium and metals (elements heavier than hydrogen and helium), and were formed from supernova explosions (the debris of
exploded population II
stars).