Stardust from the seafloor: researchers find traces of supernovae in sediments from the deep sea

25.08.2020

An international team with participation of the Isotope Physics Group describes in PNAS the analysis of deep-sea sediment samples taken about 1000 km off the southwestern tip of Australia. Their result: The Earth has been flying through an interstellar cloud with supernova tracks for at least 33,000 years.

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