NASA Webb Telescope on Twitter: "Get this: all the gold we’ve found on Earth can fit in just 3 Olympic-size pools. 🏊 The Webb telescope's gold-coated mirrors are dazzling, but why is gold so rare on Earth? Find out in our latest “Elements of Webb” episode ⬇️… https://t.co/H1alH4wY77"

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Get this: all the gold we’ve found on Earth can fit in just 3 Olympic-size pools. The Webb telescope's gold-coated mirrors are dazzling, but why is gold so rare on Earth? Find out in our latest “Elements of Webb” episode pic.twitter.com/b467VjlCDH

Elements of Webb: Gold Part 2, Ep 02

In the second episode of this series, host Sophia Roberts explores where the gold on the Webb Telescope's mirrors comes from. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

7:02 AM - 17 Nov 2021

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1. Stefan Scholl‏ @Stefan_S_from_H Nov 17
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  Isn't one reason for its rareness that it is so heavy that it sunk down to the Earth's core when the Earth was formed?
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1. Man‏ @onemanstartup Nov 17
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  "Is it extraterrestrial" - "comes from dust which forms the earth". So we are extraterrestrial too by that standard.
  
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1. shyduroff2‏ @shyduroff2 Nov 17
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  … always interesting …
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1. キュブラ ‏ @obbyishere Nov 17
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  Link the direct location’
  
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1. ‏ @melc____ Nov 17
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  mad.
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1. Stefano (carecose)‏ @carecose Nov 17
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  Thank you!
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1. Cody Steele‏ @seldomsensible Nov 17
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  Most gold that would have naturally formed on earth would have sunk into the core during formation, the gold we do have that is from asteroids raining on the earth for millions of years
  
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1. Nirguna Sanjay Prakash Sahoo‏ @DrSanjayPSahoo Nov 17
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  Dr Mansi Kasliwal thinks they saw cosmic gold being processed when the Neutron star merged, Well think again until you get the deterministic empirical @Caltech .
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1. Jay Brooks‏ @Gurughandi78 Nov 17
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  pic.twitter.com/BZaxUjfF3f
  
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1. Vincent O'Neill‏ @Stoetbul4 Nov 17
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  Ah Gold, so Precious but If gold is way deep beneath us. Then how old are the earth, how old are the galaxies?
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