¿ Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2020 August 9 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. The Origin of Elements Image Credit & [3]License: [4]Wikipedia: [5]Cmglee; Data: [6]Jennifer Johnson ([7]OSU) Explanation: The hydrogen in your body, present in every molecule of water, came from the [8]Big Bang. There are no other [9]appreciable sources of [10]hydrogen in the universe. The [11]carbon in your body was made by [12]nuclear fusion in the interior of stars, as was the [13]oxygen. Much of the iron in your body was made during [14]supernovas of stars that occurred long ago and far away. The [15]gold in your jewelry was likely made from neutron stars during collisions that may have been visible as short-duration [16]gamma-ray bursts or [17]gravitational wave events. Elements like phosphorus and copper are [18]present in our bodies in only small amounts but are [19]essential to the functioning of all known [20]life. The [21]featured periodic table is [22]color coded to indicate [23]humanity's best guess as to the [24]nuclear origin of all known elements. The sites of [25]nuclear creation of some [26]elements, such as [27]copper, are not really well known and are continuing topics of observational and computational research. Almost Hyperspace: [28]Random APOD Generator Tomorrow's picture: leaking sky __________________________________________________________________ [29]< | [30]Archive | [31]Submissions | [32]Index | [33]Search | [34]Calendar | [35]RSS | [36]Education | [37]About APOD | [38]Discuss | [39]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [40]Robert Nemiroff ([41]MTU) & [42]Jerry Bonnell ([43]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [44]Specific rights apply. [45]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [46]ASD at [47]NASA / [48]GSFC & [49]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2008/Nucleosynthesis2_WikipediaCmglee_2000.jpg 3. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia 5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cmglee 6. https://astronomy.osu.edu/people/johnson.3064 7. https://astronomy.osu.edu/ 8. https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_tests_ele.html 9. http://www.sciencealert.com/lhc-produces-primordial-soup-of-the-universe-using-less-particles-than-thought-possible 10. https://periodic.lanl.gov/1.shtml 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon#Formation_in_stars 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fusion 13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen#Isotopes_and_stellar_origin 14. https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/snr.html 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171015.html 16. https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/bursts1.html 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171016.html 18. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/144310-the-nitrogen-in-our-dna-the-calcium-in-our-teeth 19. https://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Just-Elemental/Science-Ideas-and-Concepts/The-essential-elements 20. http://images.csmonitor.com/csm/2010/02/02_65.jpg 21. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nucleosynthesis_periodic_table.svg 22. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/61/d5/9a/61d59a79540529bd9f33f5b523f2be91.jpg 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200614.html 24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosynthesis 25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EpcUohHees 26. https://www.abc.net.au/cm/lb/10079162/data/periodic-table-of-elements-data.jpg 27. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016A%26A...585A.102Y/abstract 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/random_apod.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200808.html 30. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 32. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 33. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 35. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 37. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 38. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=200809 39. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200810.html 40. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 41. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 42. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 43. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 44. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 45. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 46. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 47. https://www.nasa.gov/ 48. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 49. http://www.mtu.edu/