are humans partly made out of stars?

Question: are humans partly made out of stars?

Asked by hmeb to Fiona, Jane, Joanna, Michelle, William on 15 Jun 2010 in Categories: General.
- Fiona Randall answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  how cool would that be if we were?!
- Jane Henry answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  Yes, a physicist could elaborate.
- Michelle Murphy answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  both are made out of carbon so in a strange sort of sense I guess they are similar
- Joanna Brooks answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  I would say no. Humans are made of mainly water and carbon.
- William Davies answered on 15 Jun 2010:
  
  We certainly share some of the same basic ingredients, notably hydrogen.

Joanna commented on 14 Jun 2010:

I guess stars contain carbon so I can see where you are going with that question….

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Marianne commented on 14 Jun 2010:

Ah the marvellous Carl Sagan, great physics science communicator!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE9dEAx5Sgw (do watch, it’s brilliant – also love the old synthesiser music…)

We are made of stars!

The Earth and our entire solar system formed from a cloud of space dust.
All matter is made up of the same building blocks (the subatomic particles; electrons, quarks, muons, gluons etc. etc.), including people – our carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and everything else.

We are star stuff, harvesting starlight 🙂

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parapassion commented on 15 Jun 2010:

well all i know is that we have the same substances when a star dies, in our hair. so i think that we could have parts of us made out of stars.

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Question: are humans partly made out of stars?