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Earth’s Oceans Help Us Understand Cosmic Supernovae

January 21, 2015 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

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Earth's Oceans Help Us Understand Cosmic SupernovaeResearchers studying the ocean’s depths have made a bewildering finding that could shift the way we see Supernovae, blasting stars way past our Solar System. They have examined extraterrestrial dust believed to be from supernovae that has settled on sea depths to establish the amount of heavy compounds made by the monstrous blasts.So, our oceans help us understand cosmic Supernovae.

Lead scientist Dr Anton Wallner, from the Research School of Physics and Engineering explained that tiny amounts of flotsam and jetsam from these remote blasts fall on the Earth as it travels through the universe.  Together with his team of researchers they examined galactic dust from the last 25 million years that has gathered on the ocean floor. The researchers found that there are substantially less heavy components, like plutonium and uranium, than they anticipated, according to Wallner.

The discoveries are conflicting with current speculations of supernovae, in which a portion of the materials key for human life- like iron, potassium and iodine- are made and conveyed all through space. Supernovae likewise make silver, gold, and heavier radioactive components.

Dr Wallner’s researchers focused on plutonium-244 which works like a radioactive clock thank to its radioactive rot, with a half-life of 81 million years. As indicated by the scientist any plutonium-244 that existed when the Earth was shaped from intergalactic gas and debris has decayed a long time ago. Subsequently, any plutonium-244 that experts discover on Earth must have been created in blasting circumstances that took place more recently, in the last few hundred million years, added Dr Wallner. The team examined a 10 centimeter-thick specimen of the Earth’s hull, representing 25 million years of accumulation, and deep- ocean silt gathered from an extremely steady region at the base of the Pacific Ocean.

Dr. Wallner reported what they discovered:

“We found 100 times less plutonium-244 than we expected. It seems that these heaviest elements may not be formed in standard supernovae after all. It may require rarer and more explosive events such as the merging of two neutron stars to make them.”

The researcher additionally explained that the presence of heavy elements like plutonium, uranium and thorium today on our planet suggests that a cosmic explosive event could have taken place near to the earth around the time it was shaped.

Radioactive components in our planet, like uranium and thorium, enable a significant part of the heat that pushes mainland development. The author of the study suspects that different planets might not have the same high temperature motor inside within them.

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About Janet Vasquez

Janet hasn’t had the happiest of childhoods. Her parents shipped her off to a girl-only boarding school when she was merely a child. After a few years spent with the nuns she unexpectedly remained pregnant and was kicked from the school. But this didn’t hinder her.

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