Astronomer Carl Sagan: Everything on earth is made up of star particles

In the early 1980 ' s, astronomer Carl Sagan broadcast a 13 - part television series called “Cosmos” transmitted to PBS.

In the show, Sagan thoroughly explained many topics related to science, including Earth's history, evolution, the origin of life and the solar system.

We have the universe to know ourselves. Part of our being has the strands from the cosmos. We want to go back. And we can, because the cosmos is also inside us. We're made from particles of stars”, Sagan said in an episode.

His statement sums up the fact that carbon atoms, nitrogen and oxygen in our body, as well as atoms of all other elements, were created in previous generation of stars over 4.5 billion years ago, reports “Locking”, Transmission Periscope.

Because people and every other animal, as well as most of the other things on Earth, contain these elements, we're literally made of star fragments, said Chris Impey, professor of astronomy at Arizona University.

All carbon - containing organics were originally produced in stars”, Impey said. “Universi was originally hydrogen and helium, carbon became later, billions of years”.

The explosion of a massive star called the supernova can be billions of times as brilliant as the sun, according to “Supernova” (World Book, Inc., 2005).

So all life on Earth and the atoms that exist in our bodies were created by the stars.

In 2002, the music artist Moby released” We all descended from the stars “, explaining during a press interview that his texts were inspired by quantum physics./Periscopi/