File:NASA’s Fermi, Swift Capture Revolutionary Gamma-Ray Burst (SVS14255 - GRB211211Apt).jpg
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Two neutron stars begin to merge in this illustration, blasting a jet of high-speed particles and producing a cloud of debris.
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editDescriptionNASA’s Fermi, Swift Capture Revolutionary Gamma-Ray Burst (SVS14255 - GRB211211Apt).jpg |
English: Two neutron stars begin to merge in this illustration, blasting a jet of high-speed particles and producing a cloud of debris. Scientists think these kinds of events are factories for a significant portion of the universe’s heavy elements, including gold.Credit: A. Simonnet (Sonoma State Univ.) and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center |
Date | 7 December 2022 (upload date) |
Source | NASA’s Fermi, Swift Capture Revolutionary Gamma-Ray Burst |
Author | NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Scott Wiessinger, Aurore Simonnet, Jeanette Kazmierczak, Francis Reddy, Sophia Roberts, Aaron E. Lepsch |
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Keywords InfoField | Astrophysics; Fermi; Hubble Space Telescope; Universe; Swift; Gamma Ray Burst; Neutron |
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