2007-03-17 14:45:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Carbon is an element, and just about all elements other than hydrogen are "cooked up" inside stars. Many of these stars explode when they end their lives and the elements they've been making are hurled into deep space. Eventually other stars and planets form from these elements. Our bodies contain carbon and lots of other elements that were formed inside ancient stars that exploded. We're all made of star stuff..!
2007-03-17 15:00:47 · answer #1 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Carbon is an element. It is made in the nuclear furnace of stars. To find it on another planet would be no more surprising than finding Iron or Nitrogen.
2007-03-17 21:51:33 · answer #2 · answered by Holden 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's an element. And it gets formed in the core of a star just like most of the other elements. And it gets ejected into space when the star goes nova (or supernova) and that can happen anywhere in the Universe.
Doug
2007-03-17 21:51:20 · answer #3 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's formed inside stars.
2007-03-17 21:52:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋