Kilonova Redarrow (IMAGE)
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In this animated series of images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a newly confirmed kilonova (red arrow) -- a cosmic explosion that creates massive amounts of gold and platinum -- rapidly fades from view as the explosion's afterglow diminishes over a period of 10 days. The kilonova was originally identified as a standard gamma-ray burst, but a UMD-led team of astronomers recently revisited the data and found evidence for a kilonova.
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NASA/ESA/E. Troja
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