In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic stars, with the discovery of a magnetar. Magnetars are a type of neutron star, which are incredibly dense objects mainly made ...
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Why scientists are rethinking how gold was made: Magnetars may be the universe’s first cosmic goldsmiths
For decades, scientists believed that gold and other heavy elements were born from the cataclysmic collision of neutron stars. These rare events, observed across the cosmos, seemed to provide the ...
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