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Your body's atoms may have taken a 400,000 light-year journey through space

The article from MSN discusses the fascinating journey of the atoms that make up our bodies, suggesting that they might have traveled vast distances through space before becoming part of us. It explains that the elements essential for life, like carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, were formed in the cores of stars through nuclear fusion. When these stars exploded as supernovae, they scattered these elements into space. Some of these atoms could have journeyed from as far as the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 160,000 light-years away, or even from the Small Magellanic Cloud, roughly 200,000 light-years away. This means that the atoms in our bodies might have traveled up to 400,000 light-years before being incorporated into Earth's ecosystem, highlighting the cosmic origin of life and our connection to the universe.

Read the Full MSN Article at:
[ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/your-body-s-atoms-may-have-taken-a-400-000-light-year-journey-through-space/ar-AA1x3iCm ]