SCIENTISTS CRACK OPEN STELLAR EVOLUTION

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | October 26, 2006 | Copyright

The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following press release:

Using 3D models run on some of the fastest computers in the world, Laboratory physicists have created a mathematical code that cracks a mystery surrounding stellar evolution.

For years, physicists have theorized that low-mass stars (about one to two times the size of our sun) produce great amounts of helium 3 (³He). When they exhaust the hydrogen in their cores to become red giants, most of their makeup is ejected, substantially enriching the universe in this light isotope of helium.

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