Stardust: A Cosmic Connection

Look at your hand for a second. Just... look at it.

The atoms that make up your skin, your bones, your blood...

...they're older than Earth itself. Billions of years ago, there were stars.

Massive, ancient stars. They lived for millions of years, burning hydrogen into

helium, helium into carbon, carbon into oxygen. And when they ran out of

fuel? They exploded. Supernovae. The most violent events in the

universe. Those explosions scattered everything they'd created across space. Iron.

Calcium. Nitrogen. All the heavy elements. That debris floated