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Earth Won a Space Lottery That Made Life Possible!

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Scientists discovered that Earth got really lucky billions of years ago! Our planet had exactly the right amount of oxygen in its air so that important ingredients for life—phosphorus and nitrogen—could stay in places where living things could use them. If Earth had too much or too little oxygen back then, life might never have started, which means we're all here because of one amazing cosmic accident!
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