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Robert Lea

Fire but no brimstone: Where is the universe's missing sulfur?

An illustration shows 22 planetary nebula arranged according to size.

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of why dead stars' death shrouds seem to lack sulfur, an element once known as "brimstone" and associated with the expression "fire and brimstone" in the Bible. Based on theory, a substantial amount of sulfur should be present in stellar wreckage sites across the cosmos. 

So, where did the sulfur go?

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