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...Ames Astrophysicist Edwin Erickson. The team leader, Rodger Thompson of Arizona, who announced the find at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta, declared the MWC 349 observations to be "a spectacular step forward in the theories of planet and star formation...
...idea comes from M.I.T. Astrophysicist Alan Barrett, who decided that the same electronic wizardry that was enabling him to tune in to microwaves from free-floating molecules in interstellar space could have a down-to-earth application. If they were reduced in size, he reasoned, the sensitive antennas could even pick up the weak microwave (or heat) emissions from a tumor...
...built in part from the ashes of dead stars, and human beings are litterally star children. People−and all other forms of life on earth−are collections of atoms forged in stellar furnaces. "All of chemistry and therefore all of life has been formed by stars," says Astrophysicist Patrick Thaddeus of NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. "With the exception of hydrogen, everything in our bodies has been produced in the thermonuclear reactions within stars...
While neutron stars and black holes can result from the death of massive stars, the explosions that precede them create elements essential to the birth of new stars and spread through the universe the materials essential to life. "Stars have two purposes," says Stanford University Astrophysicist Robert Wagoner. "They give energy in the form of light, and they produce the heavy elements that we are made...
Whichever scenario is correct, says Astrophysicist Greenstein, "I find a certain pleasure and honor in belonging to the universe of stars, of these events that have created the materials of which the earth and I are made." It is a sentiment many can echo. The final consolation has always been, as humanity looking upward measured its own finiteness against the infinity of the stars, that it is better to have been for a season, even a moment, than not to have been at all. The stars thus are no less symbols in their newly understood mortality than they were, seemingly...