And that is all you need to know about stars. Without these omnipresent objects, the universe in its current form would never even exist. Everything you see around you has once been assembled by one of the stars billions of years ago. Every single complex atom of your body used to be in the heart of a star, which was building it for many years by joining lighter elements together. And what is more, all of your atoms, even the atoms of all the other objects on our planet have once been a part of a single star. This massive ancient star eventually exploded as a supernova and ejected its atmosphere into the surrounding cosmos.
The former stellar atmosphere then took the form of a nebula and started collapsing under its own gravitational pull. The Sun was created. Shortly afterwards, the remaining material formed all eight planets of our Solar System, which keep revolving around our parental star to this very day. Almost one billion years thereafter, the first primitive organisms were born. Then, they started evolving diligently for about 3.8 billion years to create me, you and billions of other living organisms that inhabit our beautiful little planet. And all of that was achieved just by using material from a huge ancient star. We could therefore without hesitation proclaim that we come from stars. Literally.
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