# Are we made of stars?

**Are we made of stars, atom by atom?**

Much of the carbon and oxygen in us was made in stars, and heavy elements like gold seem to come partly from merging neutron stars. How much came from where is still being measured.

Connects to:
- [Lives of stars](https://mapideas.org/i/as_stars)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Stellar nucleosynthesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis)

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