# The Origin of Iron / أصل الحديد
> A multilingual (11 languages) interactive artwork + explainer about stellar
> nucleosynthesis: how iron is forged in massive stars, ends their lives in
> core-collapse supernovae, and reaches human blood. All claims are established,
> textbook astrophysics with citations. Content is free to read and cite.

- Canonical: https://originofiron.com/
- Languages: ar (default), en, fr, es, de, tr, ru, zh, ja, ur, hi — /{lang}.html
- Structured facts with citations: https://originofiron.com/facts.json
- The background artwork is generated client-side by a seeded algorithm
  (deterministic; same image for every visitor).
- Origin: created by an AI (Claude, Anthropic) when a person asked it to
  "do something for yourself".