We are all stardust.
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We are all stardust.
The oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their life in a supernova.
The iron in your blood? Some from massive stars dying, but mainly fron white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.
Carbon, the basis of life? Mostly from dying low mass stars.
The gold ring on your finger? Mostly from merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.
@vicgrinberg it’s a really interesting spread
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@zauberlaus mergers are messy - the neutron stars are disrupted and quiet a lot of the material is being splashed around! It's in this flung out material that the r-process that leads to gold actually happens.
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@zauberlaus mergers are messy - the neutron stars are disrupted and quiet a lot of the material is being splashed around! It's in this flung out material that the r-process that leads to gold actually happens.
@vicgrinberg nice! thanks
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@vicgrinberg @NatureMC yeah, i see why it drew such a strong reaction
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@wonka @vicgrinberg yeah, that is true, but the infographic said that the explosion is the origin of those elements, whereas the elements are already formed in the star, they are just trapped. Idk, maybe it is a technicality but it sounded weird to me.
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@wonka @vicgrinberg yeah, that is true, but the infographic said that the explosion is the origin of those elements, whereas the elements are already formed in the star, they are just trapped. Idk, maybe it is a technicality but it sounded weird to me.
@nyx @wonka see my replies to you and to wonka: the explosion is indeed the origin! https://mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/116832767432829053
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We are all stardust.
The oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their life in a supernova.
The iron in your blood? Some from massive stars dying, but mainly fron white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.
Carbon, the basis of life? Mostly from dying low mass stars.
The gold ring on your finger? Mostly from merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.
@vicgrinberg Admittedly white dwarfs exploding usually require some other star to come along and add mass or merge with it.
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We are all stardust.
The oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their life in a supernova.
The iron in your blood? Some from massive stars dying, but mainly fron white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.
Carbon, the basis of life? Mostly from dying low mass stars.
The gold ring on your finger? Mostly from merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.
I'm guessing the stardust that makes up human white skin must have come from a very special place in this universe where we occupy such a teeny-tiny part to make those white supremacists overcome their self-hatred.
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We are all stardust.
The oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their life in a supernova.
The iron in your blood? Some from massive stars dying, but mainly fron white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.
Carbon, the basis of life? Mostly from dying low mass stars.
The gold ring on your finger? Mostly from merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.
@vicgrinberg
Supernovae and cosmic mergers are the brushes and the paint; God is the artist. For those with faith, the fascinating physics described in the text don't erase the Creator—they simply reveal the magnitude and complexity of His canvas.
We are made of stardust, shaped by a divine design that used the universe itself as a workshop. Science studies the gears; faith celebrates the Clockmaker.
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We are all stardust.
The oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their life in a supernova.
The iron in your blood? Some from massive stars dying, but mainly fron white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.
Carbon, the basis of life? Mostly from dying low mass stars.
The gold ring on your finger? Mostly from merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.
@vicgrinberg I've known it for 8 years at this point but it's still cool to remember I'm literally made up of stuff from space.
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We are all stardust.
The oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their life in a supernova.
The iron in your blood? Some from massive stars dying, but mainly fron white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.
Carbon, the basis of life? Mostly from dying low mass stars.
The gold ring on your finger? Mostly from merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.
@vicgrinberg I have a .sig that I use sometimes in outreach oriented emails:
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stardust,
and neutron star mergers,
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