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  1. Plutonium in Earth rocks reveals a brutal collision Plutonium in Earth rocks discovered in deep-sea ferromanganese crusts provides definitive evidence of a neutron star merger that occurred approxi...

    #Research #EarthScience #NeutronStars #Plutonium #SpaceScience #kilonova

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  2. A supercomputer can understand the incredible neutron merger A supercomputer can understand the extreme electromagnetic chaos generated during neutron star mergers. NASA researchers utilize high-re...

    #Technology #Astrophysics #GravityWaves #NASA #NeutronStars #SpaceScience #Supercomputing #kilonova

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  3. When neutron stars merge, things get messy

    What happens when the densest objects in the universe collide? A neutron star merger is a cosmic forge that creates heavy elements like gold and platinum, but it also unleashes "messy" gravitational waves and gamma-ray bursts that can sterilize nearby solar systems. We look at the violent physics of a kilonova.

    #science #Kilonova #Astrophysics #Cosmos #Space #Discovery #GravityWaves #NASA

    thefuturist.co/when-neutron-st

  4. Pentru prima dată în istorie, astronomii cred că au descoperit o „superkilonovă” (Video) O echipă de cercetare condusă de Caltech (Institutul de Tehnologie din California, SUA) ar fi desc...

    #Magazin #și #știință #descoperiri #supernove #explozii #stele #fenomene #astronomice #premiera #kilonova

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  5. Dubbele kosmische explosie geeft geboorte aan ongekende ‘superkilonova’
    In een bizarre wending bracht een supernova twee neutronensterren voort die samensmolten tot een krachtige kilonova.
    #AT2025ulz #kilonova #LIGO #superkilonova #supernova #zwaartekrachtgolf
    kuuke.nl/dubbele-kosmische-exp

  6. Le 17 août 2017 occupe une place spéciale dans la mémoire des astrophysiciens. En cette journée, les caractéristiques d'un événement d'ondes gravitationnelles (GW170817) suggèrent la première détection d'une fusion d'étoiles à neutrons. Un branle-bas de combat digne des meilleurs films d'action allait ensuite animer 70 équipes d'astrophysiciens pendant deux mois!

    denis-gilbert.ca/fr/2025/04/15

    #astronomy #astrophysics #neutronstar #kilonova #GW170817

  7. Why hasn’t LIGO detected more kilonova events after GW170817? – astronomy.stackexchange.com One likely explanation is that gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely rare and most are too far away. ...

    #gravitational-waves #neutron-star #gamma-ray-bursts #kilonova

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  8. GOTO065054+593624 - an 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers: aanda.org/articles/aa/full_htm -> Public take the lead in discovery of new exploding star: warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleas.

    And last year ... #Kilonova Seekers - the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics: academic.oup.com/mnras/article -> A citizen science project has already identified 20 new astronomical discoveries: port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blo

  9. They Spotted a Flash in the Night Sky – It Turned Out to Be a Rare Exploding Star A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered wit...

    #Space #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Kilonova #University #of #Warwick

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  10. Durchbruch bei der Simulation kollidierender Neutronensterne

    Die bisher längste konsistente numerisch-relativistische Simulation zeigt Details der Entstehung Schwarzer Löcher und Jets und ist ein wichtiger Schritt für die Multi-Messenger-Astronomie.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1249399/breakthroug

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Bild: K. Hayashi / @mpi_grav

    #Neutronensterne #Astrophysik #SchwarzesLoch #MultiMessengerAstronomy #Astronomie #Kilonova #Gravitationswellen

  11. 💡 Breakthrough in simulating how neutron stars collide 💥

    Longest self-consistent numerical-relativity simulation to date reveals details of black hole and jet formation and advances multi-messenger astronomy.

    ℹ️ aei.mpg.de/1249127/breakthroug

    📄 journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/

    Picture: K. Hayashi / @mpi_grav

    #NeutronStar #Astrophysics #BlackHole #MultiMessengerAstronomy #Kilonova #Jet #Astronomy #GravitationalWaves

  12. Non solo esplosioni di supernove. Scoperto un nuovo tipo di esplosione stellare, la millinova è cento volte più luminosa del Sole. Si allunga la lista delle esplosioni stellari: dopo le più celebri nova, supernova e kilonova, ora arriva anche la millinova, una nuova tipologia cento volte più luminosa del Sole ma circa mille volte meno di una classica nova.

    #esplosionistellari #kilonova #millinovae #NubediMagellano #stellazombie #supernova

    scienzamagia.eu/scienza-tecnol

  13. First Kilonova Progenitor System Identified

    noirlab.edu/public/news/noirla

    Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope uncover a one-in-ten-billion binary star system

    #astronomy #kilonova

  14. Kilonova Discovery Challenges our Understanding of Gamma-Ray Bursts

    noirlab.edu/public/news/noirla

    International Gemini Observatory probes aftermath of gamma-ray burst and uncovers surprising evidence of colliding neutron stars

    #astronomy #kilonova

  15. Nova vs Supernova

    #Supernova is the last dying gasp of a star as it goes dark.

    A #nova, on the other hand, requires two stars. One star is always a white dwarf, while the other is usually a red giant.

    #Hypernovas are supernovas that achieve a certain size and brightness. Usually, they're about 10 or more times brighter than a standard supernova. Another type, an extremely rare #kilonova occurs when two neutron stars collide, releasing an incredible gravitational wave.

    #astronomy

  16. Wat is een kilonova?

    Een kilonova is een heldere explosie van elektromagnetische straling die optreedt wanneer twee neutronensterren of een neutronenster en een zwart gat met stellaire massa botsen en samensmelten.

    kuuke.nl/wat-is-een-kilonova/

    #ElektromagnetischeStraling #kilonova #neutronensterren #StellaireZwarteGaten

  17. Evidence For a Major Kilonova Event Near Earth (3.5 Million Years Ago) - YouTube
    youtube.com/watch?v=Lt2mGPPnie

    #Astronomy #Cosmology #Kilonova

  18. Erstmals wurde das seltene schwere Element Tellur im Nachleuchten einer heftigen Sternexplosion nachgewiesen. Sie war das Ergebnis der Kollision von zwei Neutronensternen.#Neutronenstern #Pulsar #Kilonova #Supernova #Tellur #Kosmologie #Astrophysik #Gammastrahlenausbruch #GRB #JWST #Astronomie
    Kollidierende Neutronensterne erzeugen Tellur
  19. Fusie waargenomen van neutronensterren waarbij tellurium en andere zware elementen ontstonden

    Met behulp van een reeks telescopen op de grond en in de ruimte, waaronder de Webb Space Telescope, de Fermi Gamma Space Telescope en de Swift Space Telescope, hebben astronom

    kuuke.nl/fusie-waargenomen-van

    #Fermi #gammastraling #GRB20230307A #infrarood #kilonova #neutronenster #rntgenstraling #swift #webb

  20. #astronomy #kilonova #GammaRayBurst #NeutronStars #tellurium An article published in the journal "Nature" reports the detection of heavy elements including tellurium ejected from a kilonova, the merger between two neutron stars. A team of researchers started from the gamma-ray burst cataloged as GRB 230307A to examine data collected by ground-based and space telescopes which made it possible to identify the characteristics of a kilonova at the origin of that explosion.

    english.tachyonbeam.com/2023/1

  21. Collision Between 2 Neutron Stars Could Be Deadly For Life on Earth

    Earth will be sterilized by cosmic rays if within 35 light-years of a kilonova. Earth will be sterilized by gamma rays if within 300 light-years AND directly hit by the narrow gamma ray beam

    #Kilonova #Radiation

    sciencealert.com/collision-bet

  22. Haben wir verstanden, was auf der Teilchen-Ebene passiert, wenn zwei #Neutronensterne miteinander verschmelzen? Eine neue 3D-Simulation kann „vorhersagen“, welche Lichtsignale uns von solch einem Ereignis aus den Tiefen des Weltalls erreichen würden. #kilonova #astrophysik gsi.de/start/aktuelles/details

  23. Colliding Neutron Stars Could Help Measure the Expansion of the Universe

    Every time neutron stars collide, astronomers get another opportunity to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. Recent studies have shown that these collisions, kilonovae, are remarkably spherical and could be described by a single temperature, serving as standard candles for measuring cosmological distance. An analysis of the 2017 kilonova explosion found that its distance supports existing measurements for the Universe's expansion rate and could help relieve the "Hubble tension."

    #cosmology #kilonova

    nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news23/

  24. Nature Journal astronomy covers

    Anatomy of a kilonova (2017) - Aftermath of the merger between two neutron stars, initially observed in the form of the gravitational waves event GW170817.

    Art by Aurore Simonnet auroresimonnet.com

    nature.com/nature/volumes/551/

    #universe #kilonova #neutronstars #stars #gravitationalwaves #ligo #virgo #physics #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #cover #art #coverart #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research

  25. A lanthanide-rich #kilonova in the aftermath of a long gamma-ray burst: arxiv.org/abs/2308.00638 -> "observations of a luminous red transient with a quasi-thermal spectrum, following an unusual gamma-ray burst of long duration. We classify this thermal emission as a kilonova and track its evolution up to two months after the burst [...] the recession of the photospheric radius and the rapidly-decaying bolometric luminosity [...] support the recombination of lanthanide-rich ejecta as they cool."

  26. Ihr seid herzlich zur Ausstellung »HEAVY-METAL-VERSES« in #Darmstadt eingeladen! Künstlerin und Musikerin Violeta López López vereint Poesie, Musik, Klang, Grafik ... und gibt damit einen ganz neuen Einblick in die Forschung zu #Kilonova von GSI und FAIR ✨💫💥 Alle Infos:
    gsi.de/start/aktuelles/details © Violeta López López

  27. Eighteen Years of #Kilonova Discoveries with Swift: arxiv.org/abs/2305.18531 -> "Swift has now completed 18 years of mission, during which it discovered thousands of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as well as new classes of high-energy transient phenomena. [...] Swift has continued to expand the sample of known kilonovae, leading to the surprising discovery of a kilonova in a long duration GRB."

  28. #Kilonova: When #NeutronStars Collide

    "#Kilonovas get their names from the fact that they are 1000 times brighter than a #Nova. This does mean that they are about 1 tenth to 1 hundredth the #Brightness of a #Supernova, and because of how they form they are incredibly interesting indeed."

    youtube.com/watch?v=7wKFxSwI_8

    #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Gravity #GravitationalEnergy #LIGO #Interometry #WarpedSpaceTime #SpaceTime #Warping #Elements #RProcess

  29. "Wenn Neutronensterne kollidieren, entsteht .. Explosion, die – anders als bis vor kurzem angenommen – die Form einer nahezu perfekten Kugel hat. Wie dies möglich ist, ist .. immer noch .. Rätsel, aber .. Entdeckung könnte einen neuen Schlüssel zur Messung des Alters des Universums liefern. .. Pressemitteilung .. #GSI .. #Darmstadt."

    raumfahrer.net/die-perfekte-ex

    #Astronomie #AT2017gfo #Dopplereffekt #GW170817 #HEAVYMETAL #Kilonova #Neutronenstern #Neutronensternverschmelzung #Kopenhagen

    20.2.2023

  30. Spherical #symmetry in the #kilonova AT2017gfo/GW170817: arxiv.org/abs/2302.06621 -> Astrophysicists discover the perfect #explosion in space: news.ku.dk/all_news/2023/02/as (for the record, I found this Danish press release advertising the paper on Post.news ... not a great site for astronomy news yet, but in this case it 'won').

  31. When Neutron Stars Collide, the Explosion is Perfectly Spherical

    Astronomers first detected the collision of neutron stars using gravitational waves in 2017: a kilonova. Subsequent observations have mapped out the size and shape of the expanding cloud of debris. According to their simulations, the collision between two neutron stars orbiting one another 100 times a second should generate a flattened, asymmetrical cloud of debris. But the observations show that expanding kilonova remnant is entirely symmetrical, essentially a perfect sphere.

    #astronomy #kilonova

    phys.org/news/2023-02-astrophy

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