Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake Women's Organic Cotton T-Shirt PopSocket the WFPC2 science team

the WFPC2 science team

100 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus

600 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops

Lying inside our home galaxy

and infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are also represented in red

Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake Women's Organic Cotton T-Shirt PopSocket the WFPC2 science teamThis illustration shows the hot, dense, expanding cloud of debris stripped from neutron stars just before they collided. This cloud produces a kilonova; that is an astronomical event that occurs when two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole merge into each other. This cloud shows the visible and infrared light. Within this neutron rich debris, large quantities of some of the universe's heaviest elements were forged, including hundreds of