Nucleosynthesis

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    How the Universe Made the Stuff That Made Us

      Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . When our Universe was in its infancy, the only element it contained was hydrogen, the simplest one—not nearly enough by itself to create interesting things like planets and people. By the time things cooled sufficiently for the single proton in each hydrogen […]
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    Earth’s Stash of Gold Comes From Colliders Fit for Gods

    Ron Dale via Shutterstock Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One of science’s greatest feats is having described where we came from—not as individual people, or as a species, or even as a planet, but as stuff, the very material we’re made of. The Big Bang forged all of […]
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    Supernovas & Other Big Bangs: Where Your Body Comes From

    “Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” —Carl Sagan, Cosmos Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . […]