{"id":113025,"date":"2020-09-15T13:23:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/colliding-neutron-stars-generate-just-small-amounts-of-gold-creating-an-astronomical-mystery"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:23:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:23:04","slug":"colliding-neutron-stars-generate-just-small-amounts-of-gold-creating-an-astronomical-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/colliding-neutron-stars-generate-just-small-amounts-of-gold-creating-an-astronomical-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Colliding Neutron Stars Generate Just Small Amounts of Gold, Creating an Astronomical Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/colliding-neutron-stars-generate-just-small-amounts-of-gold-creating-an-astronomical-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, not so much \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neutron star collisions do not create the quantity of chemical elements <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/colliding-neutron-stars-produce-gold\/\">previously assumed<\/a>, a new analysis of galaxy evolution finds.<\/p>\n<p>The research also reveals that current models can\u2019t explain the amount of gold in the cosmos \u2014 creating an astronomical mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, not so much \u2026 Neutron star collisions do not create the quantity of chemical elements previously assumed, a new analysis of galaxy evolution finds. The research also reveals that current models can\u2019t explain the amount [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}