Hey, it's Rowan.

So we know that life doesn't come with an instruction manual.

But the next best thing I found is a podcast called LifeKit from NPR.

The LifeKit podcast can help you tackle life-altering questions, or just your everyday pickles.

Each episode offers deeply human solutions to deeply human problems.

I think you'll find it really valuable.

So check out LifeKit, wherever you get your podcasts.

Some stars live only a few million years, a fast, intense life in stellar terms, while

others will live longer than time has yet existed.

But stars honor a life cycle like everything in the universe.

They're born, live, and die.

And we are a consequence of this cycle.

I would not be standing here looking up at the sky, and not generations of stars lived

and died to bring me here to this moment.

This is an incredible thing to know, and it remains my favorite single fact.

At the beginning of the universe, only the very simplest atoms existed.

Nowhere in the entirety of space was there a single bit of the stuff that makes you

into the being that you are.

No oxygen, carbon, calcium.

Deep in the core of stars, simple atoms are fused together into larger, more complex ones.

The largest ones are not easy to make.

They take the death of a star.

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