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“For the first billion years, the universe continued to expand and cool as matter gravitated into the massive concentrations we call galaxies. Nearly a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“When a star explodes, it briefly (over the course of about a month or so) shines in visible light with a brightness of 10…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

The universe starts off with the Big Bang theory, and the first thing that emerged from the Big Bang is essentially hydrogen and then…

— John Rhys-Davies

Stars die and reborn […] They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and…

— Eckhart Tolle

We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Using the standard model of elementary particles, we know how to follow the course of nuclear reactions in the standard "big bang" theory of…

— Steven Weinberg

“A year after that, the great red star, its waist now nearly to Jupiter, all at once collapsed in on itself and exploded into…

— Kevin Emerson

The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded.

— Lawrence M. Krauss

“Stars form durable structures because they are the result of a negotiated compromise between gravity, which crushes matter together, and the explosive force of…

— David Christian

Stars have a life cycle much like animals. They get born, they grow, they go through a definite internal development, and finally they die,…

— Hans Bethe

“When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough light to overshadow an entire solar system, even a galaxy. Such explosions can set off…

— Todd Nelsen