Blue crystals in meteorites reveal the Sun's rowdy younger years

Although it's a relatively calm place today, the solar system had a pretty turbulent youth. After it sprung up about 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was far more active in its early years, but we only really know this from studying other similar stars. Now, researchers have found the fingerprints of this active young Sun in tiny, bright blue crystals preserved in meteorites from a collection at Chicago's Field Museum.

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Category: Space

Tags:

• Helium
• mass spectrometry
• Meteorite
• Solar System
• Sun
• The Field Museum of Natural History
• University of Chicago

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