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A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...
Astronomers now have a much better understanding of the cosmic conditions that create gold, platinum, and other heavy ...
Magnetar flares produce gold, platinum, and other heavy elements in our galaxy, says new research on a strange cosmic flash ...
That’s where magnetars come in. These ultra-magnetic neutron stars can unleash giant flares that throw material from their ...
Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...
A brilliant flash from deep space once baffled scientists. But now, that mystery has been solved—and it reshapes what we know ...