We're Made of Star Stuff
We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. We are in the universe and the universe is in us. -Neil Tyson. We would not exist without stars! The 92 elements of the periodic table didn't all emerge from the big bang; they were all synthesised from pristine hydrogen by processes deep inside ancient stars, which died before our solar system came into being.