Stardust
If I were to ask you where are you from? What would you say? The name of your city, state or may be the country in which you stay perhaps?! Think again! Few days back I asked the same question to few of my friends and guess, I knew the answer what to expect. It turns out, there is a more profound answer, which I'm sure will astonish you.
To know it we must make a journey back in time, to the very instance when once a brilliant colossal object could no longer sustain its mass and blew up sending out debris of matter into space in a spectacular show of light and energy. The violent demise of once a super giant star into a supernova seeded the space with raw materials that eventually gave rise to new stars. Such instances of supernovae are rare, occurring once every hundred years or so in our own galaxy and many more go up like fire works in others around the Universe. Our solar system was formed by this very process, out of the death of a Star. Over eons the debris slowly accrued into disks of gasses, colliding and coalescing, forged by the forces of gravity and time. It is now that the heart of a new star, our Sun, began to beat. The immense heat and pressure at the center of this whirling cloud of gas ignited a nuclear furnace that will continue to burn for the next 11 billion years shaping our conscious. Other smaller clouds of gas and debris around it glued in a similar way to form elements of the Solar system such as planets, moons, asteroids, comets etc. Of these, one tiny rock serendipitously located itself at a right distance from the Sun, not too close..., not too far..., for water to exist in all three forms and this orb became our home.
And the rest is all history. But, wait a minute, we still didn't answer the question!
My dear friend, You, me and everything around you is a piece of a star. The Calcium in your bones, the Iron in your blood, the Carbon in your body and the Oxygen that you breathe were all forged in the heart of a dying Star that lit up the galaxy in a cataclysmic explosion. Only the pristine Hydrogen within you is much, much older, almost as old as the beginning of time itself, made inside the foundry of Big Bang. You represent a tiny speck of a once mighty power which you embody. It's no wonder why we always feel amazed, and inconspicuous every time we gaze at those billions and gazillions of stars in the starry night, subconsciously reminding ourselves of our connection with the heavens. Does this answer make you feel Special if not leave you wondering about the teeny-weeny chance that we had, to develop a conscious to admire our existence in this Universe.
So, the next time somebody asks you "Where are you from?", you know the answer! :)
The Milky Way galaxy
To know it we must make a journey back in time, to the very instance when once a brilliant colossal object could no longer sustain its mass and blew up sending out debris of matter into space in a spectacular show of light and energy. The violent demise of once a super giant star into a supernova seeded the space with raw materials that eventually gave rise to new stars. Such instances of supernovae are rare, occurring once every hundred years or so in our own galaxy and many more go up like fire works in others around the Universe. Our solar system was formed by this very process, out of the death of a Star. Over eons the debris slowly accrued into disks of gasses, colliding and coalescing, forged by the forces of gravity and time. It is now that the heart of a new star, our Sun, began to beat. The immense heat and pressure at the center of this whirling cloud of gas ignited a nuclear furnace that will continue to burn for the next 11 billion years shaping our conscious. Other smaller clouds of gas and debris around it glued in a similar way to form elements of the Solar system such as planets, moons, asteroids, comets etc. Of these, one tiny rock serendipitously located itself at a right distance from the Sun, not too close..., not too far..., for water to exist in all three forms and this orb became our home.
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And the rest is all history. But, wait a minute, we still didn't answer the question!
My dear friend, You, me and everything around you is a piece of a star. The Calcium in your bones, the Iron in your blood, the Carbon in your body and the Oxygen that you breathe were all forged in the heart of a dying Star that lit up the galaxy in a cataclysmic explosion. Only the pristine Hydrogen within you is much, much older, almost as old as the beginning of time itself, made inside the foundry of Big Bang. You represent a tiny speck of a once mighty power which you embody. It's no wonder why we always feel amazed, and inconspicuous every time we gaze at those billions and gazillions of stars in the starry night, subconsciously reminding ourselves of our connection with the heavens. Does this answer make you feel Special if not leave you wondering about the teeny-weeny chance that we had, to develop a conscious to admire our existence in this Universe.
So, the next time somebody asks you "Where are you from?", you know the answer! :)
The Milky Way galaxy
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