{"id":178007,"date":"2023-12-10T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-oldest-stars-in-our-galaxy-make-elements-that-arent-yet-on-the-periodic-table"},"modified":"2023-12-10T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T00:22:24","slug":"the-oldest-stars-in-our-galaxy-make-elements-that-arent-yet-on-the-periodic-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/the-oldest-stars-in-our-galaxy-make-elements-that-arent-yet-on-the-periodic-table","title":{"rendered":"The oldest stars in our galaxy make elements that aren\u2019t yet on the periodic table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-oldest-stars-in-our-galaxy-make-elements-that-arent-yet-on-the-periodic-table2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Move over uranium, the Milky Way\u2019s oldest stars have bigger and better elements to make.<\/p>\n<p>A group of researchers from across the United States, Canada and Sweden have discovered ancient neutron stars might have created elements with atomic mass greater than 260.<\/p>\n<p>With an atomic mass of 238, uranium is the heaviest naturally occurring element known on Earth, though others like plutonium have been found in trace amounts due to reactions in uranium deposits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over uranium, the Milky Way\u2019s oldest stars have bigger and better elements to make. A group of researchers from across the United States, Canada and Sweden have discovered ancient neutron stars might have created elements with atomic mass greater than 260. With an atomic mass of 238, uranium is the heaviest naturally occurring element [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178007","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=178007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}