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It is required for heavy elements to form. Where is the signature or location of the source of the explosion?

2007-09-25 15:28:18 · 7 answers · asked by photonicboom 1 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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There isn't a single supernova that supplied heavy elements for our solar system. The earliest stars in the universe went supernova, supplying a vast amount of heavy elements, which gathered in dust clouds and some condensed into stars and planets. "We are stardust, we are golden, we are billion-year old carbon."

2007-09-25 15:34:11 · answer #1 · answered by Howard H 7 · 1 0

There were probably hundreds or thousands of supernovas that contributed the heavy elements in our solar system. These would have occurred 5 to 9 billion years before the sun formed. Their remnants have probably spread to every part of the Milky Way by now.

2007-09-25 16:42:20 · answer #2 · answered by Michael da Man 6 · 0 0

Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago.
Supernova remnants are visible in space for no more than maybe 1 million years years or so before the material dissipates into interstellar space.

The cloud of dust and gas that formed our solar system could have been seeded with heavy elements from numerous supernovas in our arm of the galaxy for several billions of years before the cloud started to collapse and form the solar system.

The remnants of all those supernovas that provided heavy elements for our solar system are all around us - they are in the sun, in the rocky planets and moons, in the asteroids, in the gas giants, in the Kuiper Belt objects, and in the Oort Cloud.

2007-09-25 16:36:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

we actually stay in a barred spiral galaxy. that is conceivable that shape has by some skill accrued unfastened gas and the airborne dirt and dirt and gas from many supernova explosions, and shunted it out to the outer areas of the galactic disk consisting of the place our sunlight is. it would additionally be that the spirals of the galaxy compress this remember into huge gas clouds, and interior sight supernovas would create ask your self waves in those clouds to commence up celebrity formation. those 'stellar nurseries' as they're additionally frequently going on as can start an excellent many stars. as an occasion the Orion Nebula has approximately 2000 cases the mass of the sunlight and includes a minimum of seven-hundred proto stars. consequently, i think it took an prolonged time before adequate heavy remember became into accrued to type image voltaic structures like ours. We could be between the 1st structures which could help existence, nonetheless I have not got any records to help that.

2016-12-17 10:30:47 · answer #4 · answered by cosner 4 · 0 0

You're standing on the remnants. Likely not all from the same supernova.

2007-09-25 15:33:50 · answer #5 · answered by bradxschuman 6 · 0 0

You're not just standing on the remnants: your whole body is made from the remnants! You are made of star stuff.

2007-09-25 16:11:19 · answer #6 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 0 0

in the asteroid belts. also, we live in one of these remnants.
http://www.lrpoorman.de/asteroidbelt3.jpg

2007-09-25 16:13:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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