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Space
Space
Science
Rahul Rao

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the sun's missing silver

A filtered sun that's yellow and purple. A solar flare is visible to the left.

For several years now, astronomers who study the sun have faced a little mystery — our star seemed to hold too little silver. Whenever scientists examined the sun's outer layers, they've seen significantly less silver than they've expected to find.

Where, then, did the missing silver go?

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