The most astounding fact (The most astounding fact) Is the knowledge That the atoms that comprise life on earth The atoms, that make up the human body Are traceable to unaudible that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core Under extreme temperatures and pressures These stars High mass ones among them Went unstable along the many years They collapsed and then exploded Gathering their enriched guts Across the galaxy Guts made of carbon Oxygen The ingredients of life itself These ingredients become part of gas clouds that condensed, collapsed, formed the next generation of unaudible, stars with orbiting planets, and those planets now have the ingredients for life itself. So when i look up at th night sky and i know that yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps, more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us. When i reflect on that fact, i look up. Many peope feel small and the universe is big - but i feel big: because my atoms came from those stars. The most astounding fact (The most astounding fact)