Am I Made of Stardust?: Dr Maggie Answers the Big Questions for Young Scientists

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Written in Dr Maggie’s fun, accessible style, and featuring out-of-this-world illustrations throughout, it’s guaranteed to bring the wonders of space and science to life for young readers. The Oxford Trust is a charity and our Science Oxford team could not deliver its education and engagement programmes without the fantastic support of a multitude of partners. The next generation of seeded stars were then able to produce other, heavier elements such as carbon, magnesium and nearly every element in the periodic table.

Dr Maggie has inspired and been a role model to many girls in particular, and in March ahead of International Women’s Day, was named as a Barbie Role Model for her work promoting science careers to girls. Meanwhile, the burning inside a star creates energy which counteracts the squeeze of gravity which is why our sun is stable. Intrepid wildlife reporter Andy Seed is back with another collection of interviews for which he has risked personal safety, and gotten seriously wet, while talking to the giants of the oceans. Captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2011, this image of the North America Nebula shows a cluster of young stars (about one million years old).Dr Maggie talked about some big questions scientists are exploring answers to and shared amazing facts about the Universe.

Mae’r llyfr wedi’i drefnu’n dair adran – Y Bydysawd, Ein Cyfundrefn yr Haul a Bodau Dynol yn y Gofod – sy’n golygu bod darllenwyr yn gallu picio i mewn i ateb unrhyw gwestiynau penodol sydd ganddyn nhw.The feel is fun and informative, and it’s a great book for someone just getting started with space science.

To reverse the damage we've done and protect the future, we need the knowledge that comes from scientific discovery. She spoke about her challenges at school, her big dreams that had driven her to pursue space science, and the dreams she still has, such as travelling to outer space. This process has been going on for something like 13 billion years and our solar system is thought to have formed only 4. Mae’r llyfr rhagorol hwn yn cyflwyno atebion Dr Maggie i rai cwestiynau penigamp, o ‘Wnaeth rhywun yrru car ar y lleuad?Most of the elements of our bodies were formed in stars over the course of billions of years and multiple star lifetimes. Climate change is creating deserts and dead zones, and hunting is driving many species to the brink of extinction. Written in Dr Maggie's fun, accessible style, and featuring out-of-this-world illustrations throughout, it's guaranteed to bring the wonders of space and science to life for young readers. We find it in the really, really pristine, primitive meteorites that were never altered on asteroids in the early solar system,' Ashley says.

We are always keen to hear from people and like-minded organisations who are interested in working with us. Organised into three sections: The Universe, Our Solar System and Humans in Space, readers can dip in and out to answer any specific questions they may have, or browse through as many questions and answers as they like at one time.Fill out the form below and we'll work with our scientists to answer some of them in our online magazine Discover or on our YouTube channel. Every element was made in a star and if you combine those elements in different ways you can make species of gas, minerals, and bigger things like asteroids, and from asteroids you can start making planets and then you start to make water and other ingredients required for life and then, eventually, us. Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (MBE) is a space scientist, celebrated STEM educator and communicator, and presenter of the long-standing BBC’s The Sky at Night. When those stars went supernova - exploded powerfully - and expelled the elements they had produced, they seeded the next generation of stars.