For the first time, an element found in human teeth has been identified in a galaxy 12 billion light

For the first time, an element found in human teeth has been identified in a galaxy 12 billion light-years away.

Fluorine is a chemical element that is found in our bones and teeth as fluoride.

The elements found throughout our solar system, on Earth, and even in our bodies originated in the cores of stars, where they were liberated during stellar explosions.

Fluorine was detected in an unimaginably distant star-forming galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescopes in Chile.

Fluorine was found in the NGP-190387 galaxy's gas clouds as hydrogen fluoride.

Because the light from this galaxy travelled over 12 billion years to reach us, astronomers see it as it looked when the universe was only 1.4 billion years old.

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