Scientific communicator and astronomer Carl Sagan coined one of the most iconic phrases of humanity: "we are made of stars," to highlight the extraordinary origins of the atoms that make up our body. "The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood ... formed inside the stars," said the expert in his book Cosmos, 1980.
But the quintessence of reality is even better. According to a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, published by Daniel Anglés-Alcázar -Aphysicist of the Center for Exploration and Interdisciplinary Research in Astrophysics, CIERA-, Northwestern University, have used supercomputers to perform complex simulations to understand the formation and evolution of our compound from the Big Bang to the present.