This episode explores new research which has found, for the first time, traces of the iron-60 isotope in Antarctic snow, the origins of which have been shown to come from the explosions of distant stars during supernova events.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘The Black Stars’ by Primo Levi here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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