Modeling the Solar System's Origin Story (image)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Caption

The colors represent the relative amounts of short-lived radioactive isotopes, such as iron-60, injected into a newly formed protoplanetary disk (seen face on with the protostar being the light purple blob in the middle) by a supernova shock wave.

Credit

Image courtesy of Alan Boss.

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