[A Navy Vet]

"Our sun creates helium out of hydrogen. All other elements were created somewhere else, either in much older stars or the Big Bang."

I read that helium was the next element to form after hydrogen from the Big Bang.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I read that helium was the next element to form after hydrogen from the Big Bang.

Undoubtedly some (possibly most) of the helium on Earth predates the solar system. The only point I was trying to make was that while helium is manufactured by our sun (through hydrogen fusion), nearly every other naturally occurring element found on Earth predates the solar system.