Element found in teeth detected for first time in galaxy 12 billion light-years away
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Element found in teeth detected for first time in galaxy 12 billion light-years away

CNN  

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. For the first time, astronomers have detected an element found in our bodies in a galaxy that is more than 12 billion light-years away. Calçada The stars that released fluorine throughout the universe likely lived fast and died young, the researchers said, which pinpoints Wolf-Rayet stars as their likely origin. “For this galaxy, it took just tens or hundreds of millions of years to have fluorine levels comparable to those found in stars in the Milky Way, which is 13.5 billion years old. “Our measurement adds a completely new constraint on the origin of fluorine, which has been studied for two decades.” Finding fluorine in such a distant galaxy expands the reach of this element.

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Your smile and the stars: We discovered the origin of fluoride in early galaxies
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Your smile and the stars: We discovered the origin of fluoride in early galaxies

The Independent  

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