Planetarium's award-winning exhibition Cosmos explores one of life's biggest questions: Where do we come from?
Discover the recipe for life by tracing its cosmic ingredients, from the Big Bang and stars to black holes.
Everything you are comes from the universe.
The building blocks of your body, its atoms, originated in space. On a journey through the cosmos, you'll discover exactly where the different chemical elements were created.
The hydrogen in the water inside your cells was formed at the very beginning of everything - in the Big Bang. Life is built on DNA, which contains carbon, an element forged inside stars. Throughout the universe, stars act as vast element factories, producing many of the chemical elements that make up our world, including the iron in your blood. Zinc, which is essential for your immune system, was created in the powerful explosions of massive stars known as supernovae.