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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-09-23 · 22:56 UTC

The fate of individual human beings may not now be connected in a deep way with the rest of the universe, but the matter out of which each of us is made is intimately tied to processes that occurred immense intervals of time and enormous distances in space away from us. Our Sun is a second- or third-generation star. All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star-stuff.

Carl Sagan (1934-1996) American scientist and writer
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective, ch. 26 (1973)

More info about, and parallels to, this quote: wist.info/sagan-carl/79250/

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AstroPuNk @[email protected] · 2025-07-10 · 10:26 UTC

We Installed a GIANT Space Dome on a Mountain!

We drove from Melbourne to Toowoomba… via Coonabarabran (because apparently we can’t help turning a dome install into a full-blown road trip).

Stopped in Coonabarabran for a site visit on a future project — then headed to Mt Kent Observatory to install a brand new 4m Scopedome.

There were telescopes, late nights, too many servo pies, and one absolutely massive dome. Just another casual week in astro-land. 🔭🛻🌌

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https://youtu.be/KDABrlMVVoI

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MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @[email protected] · 2025-03-07 · 17:57 UTC

⭐ Did you know we're essentially all #STARS? That is to say, we’re actually the children of stars! How does it feel to have stars for parents? 😋 bigthink.com/the-past/how... (You can skip to the last paragraph :) #StarStuff #CarlSagan #CosmicConnection #History #Universe #Humanity #People #Space

How humanity discovered we're ...

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MadeInDex 📰🌎 @[email protected] · 2025-03-07 · 15:49 UTC

⭐ Did you know we're essentially all #STARS? That is to say, we’re actually the children of stars!

How does it feel to have stars for parents? 😋

https://bigthink.com/the-past/how-we-discovered-were-all-made-of-star-stuff/
(You can skip to the last paragraph :)

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Rob Rey @[email protected] · 2024-09-19 · 16:55 UTC

Nebular Nook
24x16 in, Oil, 2021

A new star stretches out their solar wind in the nebulous dust of deceased giants. In just a few million years, their charge particles will carve out a bubble like nest for themselves in the dust while a family of planets likely form, enriched with elements created by the previous star and ready for the complex chemistry of life to begin.

Prints: https://robrey.storenvy.com
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ericbac.us @[email protected] · 2024-09-07 · 22:49 UTC

@DansNull we've even got crystals (otoliths) in our inner ears. #starStuff

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