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Recent advances in supercomputing have allowed scientists to tackle a long-standing question in astronomy. Researchers have been trying to understand why the chemical makeup at the surface of red giant stars changes as these stars evolve.
For many years, scientists struggled to connect what happens deep inside a red giant to what is observed at its surface. Nuclear reactions in the core alter the star's internal composition, but a stable layer separates this r...
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