How a watershed space explosion created trillions of tons of gold – Salon


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How a watershed space explosion created trillions of tons of gold
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A collision of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away sent out a huge shockwave — first, through the universe, and later, through the internet. Perhaps you saw the headlines whizzing around your news feed, e.g., “First Detection of
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