This Star’s Fury Forged a Mountain of Gold – Here’s How A star’s colossal flare has revealed an unexpected origin for some of the universe’s heaviest elements, including gold and platinum. In a stunning breakthrough, scientists linked a mysterious 2004...

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The Magnetar That Forged a Planet’s Worth of Gold in Half a Second 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 source of the universe’s heaviest elements like gold and platinum. Researchers...

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