by Zoë Pollock
Note to self, look up when you're in New Mexico at night:
Andrew King explains our connection to the skies:
As a star collapses towards death, it may throw off its outer layers of gas into space. These are enriched with the new elements created by fusion, and this process gradually adds these elements to all the matter in the universe. Eventually new stars, and often planets around them, form out of this material. Which is where we came from.
The Dish 