{"id":33396,"date":"2017-01-11T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/confirmed-we-really-are-star-stuff"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:52:50","slug":"confirmed-we-really-are-star-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/confirmed-we-really-are-star-stuff","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: We Really are \u2018Star Stuff\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/confirmed-we-really-are-star-stuff.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientist Carl Sagan said many times that \u201cwe are star stuff,\u201d from the nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, and the iron in our blood.<\/p>\n<p>It is well known that most of the essential elements of life are truly made in the stars. Called the \u201cCHNOPS elements\u201d \u2013 carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, and sulfur \u2013 these are the building blocks of all life on Earth. Astronomers have now measured of all of the CHNOPS elements in 150,000 stars across the Milky Way, the first time such a large number of stars have been analyzed for these elements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, we can now study the distribution of elements across our Galaxy,\u201d says Sten Hasselquist of New Mexico State University. \u201cThe elements we measure include the atoms that make up 97% of the mass of the human body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/132791\/confirmed-really-star-stuff\/\">http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/132791\/confirmed-really-star-stuff\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientist Carl Sagan said many times that \u201cwe are star stuff,\u201d from the nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, and the iron in our blood. It is well known that most of the essential elements of life are truly made in the stars. Called the \u201cCHNOPS elements\u201d \u2013 carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65385,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396\/revisions\/65385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}