40 Trivia Items About Space That Make Us Feel Smarter

So we are made of a mixture of stardust and lingering substances from crashed neutron stars. We are literally recycled bits of the universe around us. While many facts have contributed to enhancing that feeling of being so tiny in the universe, this almost seems to have the opposite effect.

The more thought that goes into it, the more the realization comes that we are literally a product of the same thing: something as big and bright and powerful as the sun is. It makes you feel more connected with everything out there, you know?