lithium
When Stars eat Their Planets, the Carnage can be Seen Billions of Years Later
Lithium is the key to determining whether a star has eaten a planet.
Record ‘Fast Nova’ Flares Over a Single Day
A galactic nova flared briefly into naked eye visibility for a day, before vanishing from sight.
Asteroids Crashing Into Dead Stars are Helping Explain Where the Universe’s Missing Lithium Went
What happened to all the lithium? The question has stumped astronomers for decades. While cosmologists have successfully predicted the abundance…
Stars Like Our Sun Become Lithium Factories as They Die
In the beginning, the big bang created three elements: hydrogen, helium, and lithium. But it only produced a trace of…
The Universe Has A Lithium Problem
The Big Bang Theory predicts three times as much lithium as observed. Where are the scientists hiding our lithium?
Weekly Space Hangout – February 17, 2017: Samuel Mason, Director of the Tesla Science Foundation
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Samuel Mason is the Director of the Tesla Science Foundation, NJ Chapter. The mission…
Elemental Mystery: Lithium Is Also Rare Outside Of The Milky Way
This new picture of M54 -- a part of a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way called the Sagittarius Dwarf…
Double Vision: Scientists Spot An Elder ‘Twin’ To the Sun
If you want a picture of how you'll look in 30 years, youngsters are told, look at your parents. The…
Kapow! Keck Confirms Puzzling Element of Big Bang Theory
Observations of the kaboom that built our universe -- known as the Big Bang -- is better matching up with…