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Coincidences that make our existence possible
There are a few small cosmic details that, if things were just a little different, wouldn't have allowed our existence to be possible
Credit: Big Think / Ben Gibson / NASA / Pablo Carlos Budassi From a hot, dense, near-uniform initial state, stars, galaxies, and living planets emerged. This close-up view of Messier 82, the Cigar Galaxy, shows not only stars and gas, but also the superheated galactic winds and the distended shape induced by its interactions with its larger, more massive neighbor: M81. Credit: R. Gendler, R. Croman, R. Colombari; Acknowledgement: R. Jay GaBany; VLA Data: E. de Block (ASTRON) Without sufficient heavy elements produced in stars, rocky worlds could never form.
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