In short order, astronomically speaking, the red giant blows off its outer layers and leaves behind a white dwarf — essentially the naked heart of the star — which slowly cools to eternal blackness. (discovermagazine.com)
Understanding how the atoms made it into your body, how they were forged in the heart of stars eons ago... now that is real inspiration. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The heavy chemical elements required for life (carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorous, and so forth) took several billion years of cooking time at the heart of stars before supernovas eventually dispersed them throughout space. (religion-online.org)