Am I Made of Stardust?: Dr Maggie Answers the Big Questions for Young Scientists

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Stars that go supernova are responsible for creating many of the elements of the periodic table, including those that make up the human body. The other way to study the life cycle of stars is by finding samples of cosmic dust and observing them through an electron microscope.

This is the first time in Earth's history that a single species - humanity - has brought such disaster upon the natural world. So it's very likely that there are a whole bunch of different stars that have contributed the elements we see in our own solar system, our planet and those found within you.We find it in the really, really pristine, primitive meteorites that were never altered on asteroids in the early solar system,' Ashley says. Every year, more people are reading our articles to learn about the challenges facing the natural world.

Dr Maggie talked about some big questions scientists are exploring answers to and shared amazing facts about the Universe. Captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2011, this image of the North America Nebula shows a cluster of young stars (about one million years old). The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy close to the Milky Way.This process has been going on for something like 13 billion years and our solar system is thought to have formed only 4. Fill out the form below and we'll work with our scientists to answer some of them in our online magazine Discover or on our YouTube channel. When those stars went supernova - exploded powerfully - and expelled the elements they had produced, they seeded the next generation of stars. To reverse the damage we've done and protect the future, we need the knowledge that comes from scientific discovery. Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a real-life space scientist (you may have seen her on the TV) with a passion for sharing the wonders of space and science.

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