About this design
You have the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev to thank for this piece of work, probably among the most aesthetically pleasing representation of a scientific exegesis: The Periodic Table.
It is amazing to think that when the first generation of stars were formed, the only element available was hydrogen (a very boring periodic table that would have been). Huge amounts of gravitational pressure acting on the stars fused the hydrogen, turning it into helium... so then there were 2 elements.
This process continued, forming heavier & heavier elements. The first 26 elements up to iron were formed via nucleosynthesis in the star cores, and some, due to their size would explode into a supernova, creating all elements heavier than iron.








