AES75 We Are Made of Starstuff

The most astounding fact…

Is that the atoms that comprise life on the Earth, the atoms that make up the human body

Are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core, under extreme temperatures and pressure.

These stars, when unstable in their later years, collapsed and exploded. Scattering their e

nriches guts across the galaxy,

Guts made out of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself.

These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condense and collapse,

Forming the next generation of solar systems, stars with orbiting planets.

And these planets now have the ingredients for life.

So when I look up to the sky, 

I know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe

But perhaps more important than both of these facts, 

Is that the universe is in us.

-Neil DeGrasse Tyson-