neutron star collisions

Cassidy Pulsating neutron star YT

There’s gold in them thar colliding neutron stars

Grab your pickaxe and space ship!

By Cassidy Ward 1 week ago

Artwork showing the birth of a magnetar, a neutron star with a fiercely strong magnetic field, with the field lines depicted. If it forms from two neutron stars merging, twin beams of material get blasted away as well. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player

Did astronomers just witness the explosive birth of a magnetar?

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

An image of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 181123B’s host galaxy (circled) taken by the Gemini Observatory.

Astronomers nab the farthest visible explosion from a neutron star collision ever seen

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

Artwork depicting the magnetic field surrounding a neutron star. Credit: Casey Reed / Penn State University

How big is a neutron star?

By Phil Plait 1 year ago

Artwork depicting strontium atoms flying away from the explosive merger of two neutron stars. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser

How to make strontium: Collide two neutron stars and stay way back

By Phil Plait 2 years ago

Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet

A nearby binary neutron star collision may have seeded the early solar system with gold

By Phil Plait 2 years ago