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Hubble Finds Weird Home of Farthest Fast Radio Burst https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-finds-weird-home-of-farthest-fast-radio-burst/ #NASA #BlackHoles #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Missions #NeutronStars #TheUniverse


NASA’s BurstCube Passes Milestones on Journey to Launch https://science.nasa.gov/universe/nasas-burstcube-passes-milestones-on-journey-to-launch/ #NASA #Astrophysics #BlackHoles #BurstCube #CubeSats #GalaxiesStarsBlackHoles #GammaRayBursts #NeutronStars #SmallSatelliteMissions #TheUniverse


NASA’s Fermi Mission Nets 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars … and Counting https://science.nasa.gov/universe/stars/neutron-stars/pulsars/nasas-fermi-mission-nets-300-gamma-ray-pulsars-and-counting/ #NASA #Astrophysics #BinaryStars #FermiGammaRaySpaceTelescope #GammaRays #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #NeutronStars #Pulsars #Stars #TheUniverse


My first thought was: how do elements created from merging neutron stars escape? I know they're insanely dense with gravity some 2 billion times stronger than the Earth.

So I googled it and discovered that material is still ejected in an event called a "kilonova". So named because its peak brightness is about 1000 times that of a typical nova.

It's impossible to imagine the energy involved in events like that.

#elements #nova #gravity #kilonova #neutronstars #periodictable

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