Старdust до клеток и обратно: Космическая история жизни, смерти и всего, что между ними

You are made of stars. Not metaphorically. Literally. The hydrogen in your body is 13.8 billion years old, forged in the Big Bang. The carbon in your DNA was built inside a red giant star. The iron carrying oxygen through your blood right now was made in the collapsing core of a massive star that exploded billions of years before the Earth existed.Stardust to Cells and Back traces the complete journey of matter — from the first seconds of the universe to the living, breathing, wondering person you are right now. In twenty richly illustrated chapters, biotechnologist Manjunath Sampangi follows the atoms in your body from their birth in stellar explosions, through the formation of planets, the emergence of life from chemistry, the evolution of consciousness, and finally back to the cosmos through death and cosmic recycling.This is popular science at its most personal: a book that asks not just how the universe works, but what it means that you are part of it. Accessible to curious non-scientists, yet rigorous enough for science students, it covers cosmology, stellar nucleosynthesis, planetary science, the origin of life, molecular biology, evolution, neuroscience, and the far future of the cosmos — all told as a single, unbroken story. You are not a bystander in the cosmic story. You are one of its most astonishing chapters.