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MIT: Bright Flash Leads Astronomers to a Heavy-Metal Factory 900 Million Light Years Away
October 26, 2023
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 26 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:

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Using multiple observatories, astronomers directly detect tellurium in two merging neutron stars.

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By Jennifer Chu

An extraordinary burst of high-energy light in the sky has pointed astronomers to a pair of metal-forging neutron stars 900 million light years from Earth.

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