Carl Sagan popularized one wonderful aspect of this in his 1980 series Cosmos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage https://en.wikipedia.org/

Carl Sagan popularized one wonderful aspect of this in his 1980 series Cosmos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage One of many great quotes from the series: “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”