The astrophysical environment of the solar birthplace
@article{Williams2010TheAE, title={The astrophysical environment of the solar birthplace}, author={Jonathan P. Williams}, journal={Contemporary Physics}, year={2010}, volume={51}, pages={381 - 396} }
Our Sun, like all stars, formed within a cold molecular cloud. Astronomical observations and theory provide considerable detail into this process. Yet cosmochemical observations of short-lived radionuclides in primitive meteorites, in particular 60Fe, provide unequivocal evidence that the early solar system inherited fresh nucleosynthetic material from the core of a hot, massive star, almost certainly ejected in a supernova explosion. I give a short introduction to the fields of star formation…
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