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Cosmic alchemy: Colliding neutron stars show us how the universe creates gold

  • Written by Duncan Brown, Professor of Physics, Syracuse University
imageIllustration of hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from the neutron stars just before they collided.NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab, CC BY

For thousands of years, humans have searched for a way to turn matter into gold. Ancient alchemists considered this precious metal to be the highest form of matter. As human knowledge...

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