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Our sun is not a first generation star, so the gases and other materials that clumped together to form our solar system came from the remains of the previous generation. There is no telling how many supernovas contributed to the materials that make our system (and us) up, but the number is very large; possibly in the millions. Scientists may have ways to estimate the number, but we will never really know.

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