A special thanks to RadiaCode for sponsoring today's video. Their useful geiger counters can be bought with a 5% discount at radiacode.com/?discount=GEOLOGYHUB2026RC. The heaviest element in the universe may exist at this peculiar star. And if it does exist, so do 7 other undiscovered elements, ranging from atomic numbers 119 through 126. While some have suggested these elements could have been dumped by intelligent alien life, a more likely explanation has a purely natural albeit peculiar origin. Since this relates to the origin of elements, I decided to cover this topic as a geologist. Note: I WAS paid by RadiaCode to promote their product. In other words, the segment about the product/website/company is an advertisement which I am being paid to say. Also, I (the account owner of the GeologyHub YouTube channel) may receive a commission or experience a form of financial gain whether direct or indirect if you click on the RadiaCode link mentioned in today's video & video description. If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ CC0 1.0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode CC BY-SA 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] Zhu, Yonglin & Wollaeger, R. & Vassh, Nicole & Surman, R. & Sprouse, T. & Mumpower, Matthew & Moller, P. & Mclaughlin, G. & Korobkin, O. & Kawano, T. & Jaffke, Patrick & Holmbeck, E. & Fryer, C. & Even, W. & Couture, A. & Barnes, Jacobo. (2018). Californium-254 and kilonova light curves. 10.48550/arXiv.1806.09724. [2] Gopka, V.F., Yushchenko, A.V., Yushchenko, V.A. et al. Identification of absorption lines of short half-life actinides in the spectrum of Przybylski’s star (HD 101065). Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 24, 89–98 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591308020049 [3] The longest half-life an isotope of each element mentioned in this video except elements 119-126 was sourced from Wikipedia text under the "isotope of X" page (with X = an element). Example: The "isotopes of bismuth" chart on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth, CC BY-SA 4.0. Because so many pages were used, and there is a 5,000 character limit for descriptions, the full attribution text from Wikipedia will be posted in a pinned comment (otherwise it would have run 2,000+ characters above the limit). [4] NASA [5] ESA [6] https://blog.sdss.org/2017/01/09/origin-of-the-elements-in-the-solar-system/, (chart of how the origin of the solar system elements occurred which falls under a CC BY 2.0 license) [7] Teemu Arppe, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simple_periodic_table_with_four-figure_atomic_weights.svg, CC0 1.0 license [8] Coplen, T.B., Meyers, F., and Holden, N.E., 2016, Standard and conventional atomic weights 2016 abridged to four significant digits: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F79Z9315 [9] https://images-of-elements.com/, by: https://images-of-elements.com/, Photo link: https://images-of-elements.com/lithium.jpg, Lithium Element Page: https://images-of-elements.com/lithium.php, CC BY 3.0 0:00 Signs of Alien Life? 0:20 Przybylski's Star 0:40 How Elements Form 2:35 RadiaCode Sponsorship 4:16 Undiscovered Elements 5:00 Actinides 6:05 Doubly Magic Isotopes 7:32 4 Possibilities 8:53 R-Process 10:11 Bad Data Possibility