{"id":137463,"date":"2022-03-29T09:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/new-clues-to-earths-formation-from-ancient-helium-leaking-from-the-planets-core"},"modified":"2022-03-29T09:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T16:23:20","slug":"new-clues-to-earths-formation-from-ancient-helium-leaking-from-the-planets-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/new-clues-to-earths-formation-from-ancient-helium-leaking-from-the-planets-core","title":{"rendered":"New Clues to Earth\u2019s Formation From Ancient Helium Leaking From the Planet\u2019s Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-clues-to-earths-formation-from-ancient-helium-leaking-from-the-planets-core2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vast stores of helium from the Big Bang lingering in the core suggest Earth formed inside a solar nebula.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth\u2019s core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the Big Bang, the gas leak adds evidence that Earth formed inside a solar nebula, which has long been debated.<\/p>\n<p>Helium-3 has been measured at Earth\u2019s surface in relatively small quantities. But scientists did not know how much was leaking from the Earth\u2019s core, as opposed to its middle layers, called the mantle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vast stores of helium from the Big Bang lingering in the core suggest Earth formed inside a solar nebula. Helium-3, a rare isotope of helium gas, is leaking out of Earth\u2019s core, a new study reports. Because almost all helium-3 is from the Big Bang, the gas leak adds evidence that Earth formed inside a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}