Which Elements in Your Body Actually Came From a Supernova | Comfort Colors T-Shirt | Etherlotus

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Not every element in your body came from the same cosmic source, some formed in ordinary stars, and others required something far more violent.

What Ordinary Stars Can Actually Make

Nuclear fusion inside stars builds elements up through iron, the point at which fusion stops releasing energy and starts consuming it, meaning a normal star's fusion process has a hard ceiling on what it can produce, regardless of size.

Where Heavier Elements Actually Come From

Elements heavier than iron, including gold, silver, and uranium, require the extreme conditions of a supernova explosion or, as more recent research has shown, colliding neutron stars, events violent enough to force the nuclear reactions ordinary stellar fusion can't sustain.

Star Stuff, Specifically

Every atom of calcium in your bones and iron in your blood traces back to a star that fused it, and the gold in a piece of jewelry almost certainly traces back to a neutron star collision, a literal, traceable origin, not just a poetic phrase.

The Design

A swirling nebula and starfield illustration surrounds bold script reading "Created From Stars." A design built around real stellar nucleosynthesis.

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