{"id":185005,"date":"2024-03-13T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/astronomers-discover-heavy-elements-after-bright-gamma-ray-burst-from-neutron-star-merger"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T15:22:54","slug":"astronomers-discover-heavy-elements-after-bright-gamma-ray-burst-from-neutron-star-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/astronomers-discover-heavy-elements-after-bright-gamma-ray-burst-from-neutron-star-merger","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover Heavy Elements after Bright Gamma-Ray Burst from Neutron Star Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-heavy-elements-after-bright-gamma-ray-burst-from-neutron-star-merger3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Breakthrough discovery puts astronomers one step closer to solving the mystery of the origin of elements that are heavier than iron. An international team of astronomers \u2014 including Clemson University astrophysicist Dieter Hartmann \u2014 obtained observational evidence for the creation of rare heavy elements in the aftermath of a cataclysmic explosion triggered by the merger of two neutron stars.<\/p>\n<p>The massive explosion unleashed a gamma-ray burst, GRB230307A, the second brightest in 50 years of observations and about 1,000 times brighter than a typical gamma-ray burst. GRB230307A was first detected by NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope on March 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Using multiple space-and ground-based telescopes, including NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space, scientists were able to pinpoint the source of the gamma-ray burst in the sky and track how its brightness changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthrough discovery puts astronomers one step closer to solving the mystery of the origin of elements that are heavier than iron. An international team of astronomers \u2014 including Clemson University astrophysicist Dieter Hartmann \u2014 obtained observational evidence for the creation of rare heavy elements in the aftermath of a cataclysmic explosion triggered by the merger [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185005","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}