A Silicon Carbide Grain (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

A Silicon Carbide Grain

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A silicon carbide grain only a few microns across, smaller than a yeast cell or reb blood cells, originated in a red giant or supernovae and traveled across space and time sheltered in an asteroid bearing within it the secrets of its parent star.

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Scott Messenger

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