{"id":3926490,"date":"2026-06-14T19:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astrochemical-model-digs-into-the-universes-missing-sulfur\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T00:03:53","slug":"astrochemical-model-digs-into-the-universes-missing-sulfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/astrochemical-model-digs-into-the-universes-missing-sulfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrochemical model digs into the universe&#8217;s missing sulfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. If you peer into a diffuse interstellar cloud, you find loads of it\u2014about the amount expected based on fusion patterns in the stars it was born in. However, if you look at a dense, cold molecular cloud\u2014the kind where those stars actually form\u2014it seems like 99% of the sulfur expected to be there is missing. Scientists have puzzled over this &#8220;missing sulfur problem&#8221; for decades, though a leading theory is that the element hides in icy dust grains, making it hard to detect.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-06-astrochemical-universe-sulfur.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sulfur is one of the most abundant elements in the universe. If you peer into a diffuse interstellar cloud, you find loads of it\u2014about the amount expected based on fusion patterns in the stars it was born in. However, if you look at a dense, cold molecular cloud\u2014the kind where those stars actually form\u2014it seems [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}