Cosmic Clocks (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Cosmic Clocks

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We can estimate the age of heavy elements in the primordial Solar System by measuring the traces left in meteorites by specific radioactive nuclei synthesized in certain types of supernovae.

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