The search is on
Aug 03, 2022
2 minutes
by Diana Hannikainen
You and the paper (or screen) on which you’re reading this are both here thanks to dying stars. Previous generations of stars forged elements heavier than hydrogen and helium — such as the carbon in the wood pulp in this magazine’s paper — and then spewed said elements into space at the ends of their stellar lives, sometimes in cataclysmic events called supernovae.
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