The even-numbered elements, with their even numbers of protons, were far more abundant than the odd-numbered elements. Graphs of the abundance of elements in the universe resembled toothed saws ...

Suppose you were to look all around the universe and count all the different elements. ... this chart shows the relative abundance of elements in the Milky Way, ... Here is a diagram from wikipedia.

“The results demonstrate a rapid and dramatic increase in the abundance of oxygen in galaxies during the first 500-700 million years after the birth of the universe,” Nakajima says. “This finding may ...

The authors estimated that magnetar giant flares could contribute up to 10 percent of the overall abundance of elements in the galaxy that are heavier than iron.

Dr Andy Boston, from the University's Department of Physics, explains: "There is a huge abundance of elements in the Universe, but we know very little about why this is.

Astronomers have discovered an exceptionally rare star that may help to solve one of astronomy's enduring mysteries: where the universe's heaviest elements came from. The star, named LAMOST J0804 ...

Heavy elements – 'metals' in astronomer-speak – are created within stars and then spewed out across the cosmos by supernovas. Scientists are now asking: when did the universe have enough ...

These elements in question are known as the CHNOPS elements – carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and sulfur – which make up more than 97 percent of the mass of a human body.

Scientists have identified a type of supernova, or exploding star, that produces unusually large amounts of calcium — enough perhaps to explain the abundance of that element in the universe and ...

How are chemical elements produced in our Universe? Where do heavy elements like gold and uranium come from? Using computer simulations, a research team from the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für ...

Life as we know it is based upon the elements of carbon and oxygen. Now a team of physicists is looking at the conditions necessary to the formation of those two elements in the universe. They've ...