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Groxxtoday at 6:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

Stars kinda famously fuse elements up to iron as part of normal operations. And even if you exclude that, the entire solar system is leftovers from a previous star - all that is inside our current star too. Sure, much of it isn't at the surface, but there's not much of a reason to expect that literally zero of it randomly floats up among the lighter elements.

Have a reference tho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 7:06 AM

That said, "heavy ions and atomic nuclei of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, magnesium, silicon, sulfur, and iron" makes up only "trace amounts" of the solar-wind plasma [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind

L_226today at 9:31 AM

> our current star

Looking forward to seeing the next one!

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