{"id":169109,"date":"2023-08-05T22:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/violent-neutron-star-collisions-unlocking-the-origins-of-gold-and-other-heavy-elements"},"modified":"2023-08-05T22:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:22:27","slug":"violent-neutron-star-collisions-unlocking-the-origins-of-gold-and-other-heavy-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/violent-neutron-star-collisions-unlocking-the-origins-of-gold-and-other-heavy-elements","title":{"rendered":"Violent Neutron Star Collisions: Unlocking the Origins of Gold and Other Heavy Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/violent-neutron-star-collisions-unlocking-the-origins-of-gold-and-other-heavy-elements2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The gold that makes up your most precious jewelry may have been forged in a violent cosmic collision millions or billions of light years away between two neutron stars. New research seeks to better understand this process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is only a single confirmed site in the Universe capable of generating conditions extreme enough to initiate the production process for many of the heaviest elements in the Universe, including gold, platinum, uranium \u2013 neutron star.<\/p>\n<p>A neutron star is the collapsed core of a large (between 10 and 29 solar masses) star. Neutron stars are the smallest and densest stars known to exist. Though neutron stars typically have a radius on the order of just 10 \u2014 20 kilometers (6 \u2014 12 miles), they can have masses of about 1.3 \u2014 2.5 that of the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gold that makes up your most precious jewelry may have been forged in a violent cosmic collision millions or billions of light years away between two neutron stars. New research seeks to better understand this process. There is only a single confirmed site in the Universe capable of generating conditions extreme enough to initiate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169109","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=169109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}