And The Four-Year-Old’s *new* favorite color is….
Detailed image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. (Credit: NASA/CXC/GSFC/U.Hwang et al.)
The Four-Year-Old, decisively: “Gold.”
Mother, a bit chagrined at how expensive her daughter’s tastes are already getting: “Why?”
The Four-Year-Old: “Because it’s rare and it was cooked in a star that died long ago.”
Mother surreptitiously Asks the iPhone and finds Cosmic Crashes Forging Gold (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft).
Mother: “Huh. Well, I suppose that’s ok.”
(Not that The Four-Year-Old read that article, you understand. She learned about the cosmic origin of gold on an episode of Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking.)
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