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remember: “the atoms of your body… were initially forged in long-dead stars… We are star stuff. Keep looking up” - Neil Degrasse Tyson
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The most astounding fact about the universe is the knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth; the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked in light elements into heavy elements in their core, under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars, the high mass ones among them, went unstable in their later years. They collapsed and then exploded, scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy; guts made of: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself. These ingredients become part of gas clouds, that condense, collapse, and form the next generation of solar systems; stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So that when I look up at the nice sky, I know that, yes, we are apart of this universe, we are in the universe. But, perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. And when I look up, many people feel small because they’re small and the universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant. You want to feel like you’re a participant in the goings-on of activities and events around you, because that’s precisely what we are, just by being alive.
Neil Degrasse Tyson (via mysharona1987)