More than 99 per cent of the elements that make up the Earth, the
pages of this magazine, and you, were created in the nuclear hearts of stars
that burnt out long before our Solar System was born. When these stars died,
they released their elements into space as dust and gas. Eventually, this
material clumped together to form our own Solar System, in a building frenzy
that erased most of the chemical memory of its origins. But some dust remains
untouched, locked inside meteorites, frozen in time.
pages of this magazine, and you, were created in the nuclear hearts of stars
that burnt out long before our Solar System was born. When these stars died,
they released their elements into space as dust and gas. Eventually, this
material clumped together to form our own Solar System, in a building frenzy
that erased most of the chemical memory of its origins. But some dust remains
untouched, locked inside meteorites, frozen in time.
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