Space

Space is the largest question there is, and some of its most astonishing answers are hiding inside the smallest things. The iron in your blood was forged inside a star that exploded before the Earth existed. The atoms in your body are mostly empty space. Light from distant stars left before humans existed.

Smile with Daniel explores space and the universe through the questions that stop you mid-thought. Where do stars come from? How do scientists know how old a dinosaur fossil is? What does it actually mean that the universe had a beginning?

These are not questions with simple answers, and Smile with Daniel does not pretend otherwise. What it offers instead is the genuine wonder of following a question far enough that the universe starts to feel both larger and more personal than it did before.

Here you’ll find every Smile with Daniel episode about space, stars, and the deep questions about where everything, including us, actually came from.

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