You eat dead stars for breakfast

… and everything in your body (up to iron in the periodic table) was made in a star, everything in your body beyond iron was made in a supernova – we really are “star-stuff”, Bon appetit.

We are all made of stars: half our bodies’ atoms ‘formed beyond the Milky Way’

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/scie

Simulations reveal that up to half the material in our galaxy arrived from smaller galactic neighbours, as a result of powerful supernova explosions