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the confetti left over after a star throws itself a very violent party.
means the gas, dust, and heavy elements a star ejects or leaves behind when it dies, which later seed new stars, planets, and occasionally you.
from from latin stella, star, plus debris from the french debriser, to break apart — astronomers borrowed the word from wreckage sites and shipwrecks because that is exactly what a supernova remnant looks like.
you are stardustcalcium in your bones came from a dead star
speedsupernova ejecta can hit 30,000 km per second
recyclingour solar system formed from a prior star's debris
gold originheavy metals like gold form in neutron star collisions
for instance
crab nebula — remnant of a supernova chinese astronomers logged in 1054
cassiopeia a — debris cloud from a star that exploded 340 years ago
protoplanetary disk hl tauri — dusty debris ring where alma imaged forming planets in 2014
presolar grains — dust older than the sun found inside meteorites on earth