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Aliens: Your Oxygen Came From a Dying Star
Alien life might be a question you've never thought to ask about yourself. Every atom of oxygen you breathe had to pass through a supernova to exist. Stars exploded to build you. That's not poetic license, that's physics, and once you understand it, the question of whether life exists elsewhere gets a lot harder to answer with a simple no.
Astronomers identified that molecule by measuring how it absorbs light, a technique rooted in quantum mechanics where every atom has a unique spectral fingerprint. It sounds precise, but the data is noisy enough that a similar detection from last year…
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