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This means that helium has been continuously generated ever since the earth was formed. Some of the gas might eventually creep through the earth and escape into the atmosphere; fortunately, when ...

The sun, a searing hot sphere of gas primarily composed of hydrogen and helium, boasts surface and outer atmospheric ...

When two photons combine with a neutron and two electrons during the nuclear fusion process on the Sun, this combination gives rise to the high-energy Helium-3 particles. From the sun, the solar ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar ...

Lockyer very quickly came to the conclusion that he’d found a new element, which he dubbed helium, after Helios the Greek personification of the Sun. It was a giddy leap of faith which ...