Every atom in your body — except hydrogen —
was once inside something else.
What?

Q: Every atom in your body — except hydrogen — was once inside something else. What?

A star.. Carbon, oxygen, iron — all forged in stellar furnaces and scattered by supernovae. You are literally a rearrangement of dead stars. Carl Sagan’s favourite fact.

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A star. — Carbon, oxygen, iron — all forged in stellar furnaces and scattered by supernovae. You are literally a rearrangement of dead stars. Carl Sagan’s favourite fact.