This is an artist’s impression of the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day form a kilonova — the ultra-powerful, gold-producing…
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This artist’s impression shows a kilonova produced by two colliding neutron stars. While studying the aftermath of a long gamma-ray burst (GRB), two independent teams…
Artist’s impression of GRB 211211A. The kilonova and gamma-ray burst is on the right. The blue color represents material squeezed along the poles, while the red…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has been collecting data on a kilonova—a powerful event illustrated here that happens when two neutron stars merge—associated with GW170817. This…
An artist’s conception illustrates the aftermath of a “kilonova,” a powerful event that happens when two neutron stars merge. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Northwestern Univ./A. Hajela et…
Magnetar-Powered Kilonova Blast. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI) Neutron-Star Collision Releases Puzzling Burst of Infrared Light In our infinite universe, stars can go…
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab This illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided.…