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What are the most common elements in the Universe?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Are We All Star Stuff?

The universe started out as almost all hydrogen and a little bit of helium. The carbon that's inside our body was made by fusing helium inside other stars. Only the biggest most massive stars can even make iron. To get heavier than iron you might wonder like well where does that come from? How's that possible if you can't use fusion? Like one thing you can do is call neutron capture.

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