File:Eso1733s Artist's impression of merging neutron stars.jpg
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English: This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode as a kilonova. Such a very rare event is expected to produce both gravitational waves and a short gamma-ray burst, both of which were observed on 17 August 2017 by LIGO–Virgo and Fermi/INTEGRAL respectively. Subsequent detailed observations with many ESO telescopes confirmed that this object, seen in the galaxy NGC 4993 about 130 million light-years from the Earth, is indeed a kilonova. Such objects are the main source of very heavy chemical elements, such as gold and platinum, in the Universe. |
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Author | University of Warwick/Mark Garlick |
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Credit/Provider | University of Warwick/Mark Garlick |
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Source | European Southern Observatory |
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Date and time of data generation | 16:00, 16 October 2017 |
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Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany |
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