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The production of heavy elements inside stellar furnaces is a necessary but not sufficient condition for life to arise. For this to happen, other phenomena must also occur at the same time, which are also necessary but not sufficient, such as the diffusion of these elements into interstellar space.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope examined Wolf-Rayet 140, a system of two massive stars in our Milky Way galaxy, that create carbon-rich dust shells as they swing past each other. The rings move outward at 1600 miles per second, making them noticeably different from one year to the next. This observation helps scientists understand how carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. https://lnkd.in/ekn76fgA
