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Spark: The Universe in Us

Where did the building blocks of life come from?

Where did the building blocks of life come from? The answer lies in the hearts of distant stars and incredibly powerful explosions such as supernovae, which help spread fundamental elements to galaxies far and wide, where they can spark new life.

With English narration by Diego Luna, the California Academy of Sciences’ 2023 original planetarium film Spark: The Universe in Us explores how hundreds of millions of celestial events have forged the elements that make up the Solar System, Earth, and us.

Travel deep inside a giant star nearing the end of its life, witness the collision of stellar corpses, and experience the quiet demise of a star like the Sun.

From the oxygen we breathe to the iron in our blood, the silicon in Earth’s mantle to the uranium that warms our planet’s core and helps give our planet its protective magnetic field, we owe it all to the stars!

Journey across space and time as we explore the remnants of stellar explosions, tracing the movements of elements through our galaxy to understand how stars live, die, and seed the Universe with the elements to build new generations of stars, planets, and life.

Everything in the Universe is composed of different combinations and concentrations of the same 94 naturally occurring elements. Their source? Stars. Spark: The Universe in Us offers a dynamic new perspective on the periodic table of the elements, revealing how stellar phenomena created and dispersed the raw materials of galaxies, planets, and us.

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Running time: 26:54
Suitable for: General Public
Information about: Cosmic chemistry, stellar evolution, supernovae, atoms, elements.
Year of production: 2023

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