We are all made of stars
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
'Cause we are all made of stars"
- taken from the song "We are all made of stars" by Moby
Stardust. The true building blocks of life. Within the cloudy remains of supernovae, amidst the bright explosion that is the death of a star, is the creation of the complex elements that is the beginning of life.
Nuclear fusion, the explosive transmutation of elements. From hydrogen, the simplest of all elements, to helium. Each day, hydrogen atoms fuse together within the heart of stars like our sun. With their continual fusion also occurs the release of stored energy as well as stray protons, neutrons and electrons. Creation.
But for nuclear fusion to occur, for the creation of complex matter such as carbon and oxygen, an insane amount of energy is required. The breaking of bonds between nuclei and the fusion of those very same nuclei, calls for a lot of power to be put in.
There is only one place where one can find the creation of these elements occuring. In the stars. In the death of a star, in the explosive end that is a supernova is born an immense cloud of gas called a nebula. And in that cloud of nebula, lies the ingredients for life. Carbon, Oxygen, Helium, Silicon. All the elements that we know and see.
These floating clouds of dust in space, they merge together. They collapse upon each other and in time, form planets. They create new masses of plasma. New suns. New stars. And, in time...new life.
Every single cell in your body, every single atom in ur palm, every imaginable piece of you, was born in the death of a star. In all effects, you are nothing more than the walking corpse of a dead giant. You, are a piece of the stars. As is each and everyone around us.
People they fall apart
No one can stop us now
'Cause we are all made of stars
