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Astronomers tell us that all stars are furnaces fueled by fusion of hydrogen into helium. When their fuel is spent, the central cores of stars collapse, reaching 100 million degrees Kelvin. Under these conditions nuclei fuse to form heavier elements, such as carbon, oxygen, and eventually iron. Some of these dying stars then explode, scattering the heavy elements through space; subsequently, the remnants of the explosion re-condense to form new stars surrounded by planets composed of the heavier elements.
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Byers, B.R. (2013). Introduction to the Book. In: Byers, B. (eds) Iron Acquisition by the Genus Mycobacterium. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00303-0_1
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