How do stars make you?

How do stars make you?

Your red blood cells contain haemoglobin, a protein that carries oxygen around your body that consists of four protein subunits. In total, it holds around 70% of your body’s total iron content.

So what does this have to do with the stars? 

Well, remember those processes that were mentioned before that form our heavier elements like oxygen and and nitrogen? They also form iron, a vital component of the human body to keep us all alive. Although it is the fourth most common element on Earth, it is abundant in the stars and the sun, where it was originally formed. In fact, iron is only formed in supernova explosions from massive stars, as it is such a heavy element.

Your blood is built from stardust, and you are kept alive by this.

The iron in our blood was formed of collapsing stars thousands of years ago.

We are stars wrapped in skin - the light you are seeking has always been within. 

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than that of your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics. 

We are all stardust. 

“You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded because the elements- the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars and the only way they could get into our bodies is if those stars were kind enough to explode. “

The stars died so that you could be here today - Lawrence M. Krause, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing. 

Humans and the galaxy are made up of about 97 percent of the same kind of atoms.

There’s stardust running through your veins and galaxies swirling in your soul.

Don’t ever underestimate what you can achieve. The universe is on your side, always.

Almost every element on Earth was formed at the heart of a Star.

Our bodies are quite literally made of elements of stars and explosions in the galaxies… We are made of Stardust.

So the next time you look up at the Stars… Remember that the beauty of the night sky is within you.