Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake Wall Art including Frame Android phone case rather like lumps of butter

rather like lumps of butter dropped onto a hot frying pan

in the year 1054

the colliding galaxies have been nicknamed "The Mice" because of the long tails of stars and gas emanating from each galaxy

Another pair of jets is visible in a peak near the top-centre of the image

Neutron Stars Create Gold and Platinum in Their Wake Wall Art including Frame Android phone case rather like lumps of butterThis 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