The Plume of Gold Ejected by a Cosmic Collision – The Atlantic


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The Plume of Gold Ejected by a Cosmic Collision
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Using infrared telescopes, astronomers studied the spectra—the chemical composition of cosmic objects—of the collision and found that the plume ejected by the merger contained a host of newly formed heavy chemical elements, including gold, silver, …
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