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Solar Elemental Abundances
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Glowing yellow sun against a black background
Courtesy of NASA/SDO/AIA
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An SwRI-led team proposes new solar elemental abundances that potentially reconcile longstanding questions for the first time. A broad set of interdisciplinary data indicates higher levels of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen in the Sun than previously thought, yielding a major advancement in addressing the prolonged solar abundances problem between spectroscopy and helioseismology measurements.