On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

According to a study, a neutron-star collision that occurred approximately 80 million years before the birth of our solar system produced an ample amount of gold, uranium, and other heavy elements ...

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Neutron star mergers are collisions between neutron stars, the collapsed cores of what were once massive supergiant stars.

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Astronomers have described the first measurements of plasma layers within an interstellar shock wave that surrounds a pulsar.

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The image shows two neutron stars colliding to releasing neutrons that radioactive nuclei rapidly capture. The combination of neutron capture and radioactive decay produces subsequently heavier ...

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That's because astronomers have discovered that this magnetar, which is a special type of highly magnetic neutron star, wasn't actually born in a nearby supernova as previously theorized.