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What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?

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The most astounding fact

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is the knowledge

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that the atoms that comprise life on Earth

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the atoms that make up the human body

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are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements

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into heavy elements in their core

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under extreme temperatures and pressures

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These stars, the high mass ones among them

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went unstable in their later years

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they collapsed and then exploded scattering their enriched guts across the galaxy

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guts made of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen

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and all the fundamental ingredients of life itself

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These ingredients become part of gas cloud that

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condense, collapse, form the next generation of solar systems

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stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself

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So that when I look up at the night sky

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and I know that yes, we are part of this universe

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we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts

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is that the Universe is in us.

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When I reflect on that fact, I look up-

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many people feel small because they're small and the Universe is big-

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but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.

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There's a level of connectivity.

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That's really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant

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you want to feel like a participant in the goings on

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of activities and events around you

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That's precisely what we are, just by being alive...