New research suggests leftover grains from earlier stars acted as nucleation points, solving a long-standing puzzle about how the solar system’s first solids formed so quickly.
(CN) — Microscopic grains of ancient stardust, leftovers from stars that lived and died long before our sun existed, likely acted as the seeds for the earliest solid materials in the solar system, new research from Caltech shows.
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