{"id":690083,"date":"2021-05-13T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690083"},"modified":"2021-05-13T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T18:00:27","slug":"freshly-made-plutonium-from-outer-space-found-on-ocean-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=690083","title":{"rendered":"Freshly-Made Plutonium From Outer Space Found On Ocean Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/supernova_wide-d34cb3019b67858b3aae0c53d496d631b9c23e41.jpg\" alt=\"Scientists believe some heavy elements are forged when a massive star goes through its death throes and explodes as a supernova. Here, the supernova Cassiopeia A was captured in a false-color image from NASA.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Something went boom in outer space and sent radioactive stardust our way, and it&#8217;s just been found at the bottom of the ocean. <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/STScI\/CXC\/SAO, Animation: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Univ. of Ariz.\/STScI\/CXC\/SAO\/NASA )<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/npr-rss-pixel-8.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/05\/13\/996499035\/freshly-made-plutonium-from-outer-space-found-on-ocean-floor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freshly-Made Plutonium From Outer Space Found On Ocean Floor<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something went boom in outer space and sent radioactive stardust our way, and it&#8217;s just been found at the bottom of the ocean. (Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/STScI\/CXC\/SAO, Animation: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/Univ. of Ariz.\/STScI\/CXC\/SAO\/NASA&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}