Neutron stars: New telescope detects colliding dead suns

Astronomers can for the first time detect the smashing together of dead suns known as neutron stars

Neutron stars: New telescope detects dead suns colliding - BBC News

 

Neutron star collisions are key to understanding our universe.

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They are believed to produce the same heavy metals that formed stars and planets like billions of years ago.The light from the collision was only visible for a few nights. So the telescope had to run to it.

Astronomers observed one collision in 2017, but most stumbled upon it.The British have built the Gravitational-wave Light Temporary Observator (GOTO) above the clouds on the Spanish volcanic island of La Palma,

which will now systematically hunt them down.Prof. Danny Steeks from the University of Warwick. tell me that "When there's a really good detection Everyone has to do their best.


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