Life Behind the Stars

After many years with a haunting phrase echoing in his head a scientist decides to tell a fascinating story. He wants to find a link between the stars that make up our universe and life on Earth. Our sun is a second or third generation star formed by the remains of gas and dust from other stars that have already died. Everything that surrounds us, from animals, the air we breathe to the water we drink is composed from atoms that were inside the stars. recent scientific findings highlight an even deeper and disturbing idea - that the role of the stars doesn't stop there. They may not only they create matter, the atoms that create living things - but they may also be responsible for creating, evolving and extinguishing life any where in the universe. Here begins an adventure to discover a natural phenomenon hidden from our eyes - cosmic radiation; an exciting world where astronomy meets particle physics and biology. We begin a journey that will take us to some of the best research centers in the world looking for that amazing link between life and the rest of the Universe, and the most distant stars. He will find that the death of distant stars bathes the space with small particles. They have the ability not only to change life on our planet but also to create the basic blocks for life in the cold and dark interstellar medium. Perhaps stars are more than just the matter we are made of. And perhaps, we are not only star stuff.