Lithium Dip Found in Unexpectedly Young Stars ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Emergence of a lithium dip in ~35 Myr "Snake" Open Clusters"
Stars have been found to lose lithium four times sooner, and the culprit is rapid rotation acting like a blender.
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The lithium dip has been found in a star cluster just 35 million years old — four times younger than previously thought. Fast-rotating stars lose lithium faster due to vigorous mixing at the boundary between the core and the outer layers. This changes our picture of how young suns burn through their early supply of light elements.
🎯 Lithium is one of the three elements born in the Big Bang, along with hydrogen and helium. Its abundance in the Universe serves as a crucial test of cosmological theories.
🎬 Sci-fi writers often portray stellar cycles as slow processes, but here lithium destruction is accelerated by rotation, like a cosmic blender with a 'turbo' button.