{"id":95663,"date":"2019-09-01T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T19:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/astronomers-capture-rare-cosmic-collision-thats-a-chance-to-understand-the-chemistry-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2019-09-01T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T19:03:12","slug":"astronomers-capture-rare-cosmic-collision-thats-a-chance-to-understand-the-chemistry-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/astronomers-capture-rare-cosmic-collision-thats-a-chance-to-understand-the-chemistry-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers capture rare cosmic collision that\u2019s a chance to \u2018understand the chemistry of the universe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-capture-rare-cosmic-collision-thats-a-chance-to-understand-the-chemistry-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a cosmic collision that has astronomers rethinking one of the universe\u2019s most colossal events: the collision of massive stars.<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/mnras\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/mnras\/stz2255\/5554752?searchresult=1\" target=\"_blank\">Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/a>, astronomers reveal the finding of a kilonova produced by the collision of two massive stellar objects called neutron stars. The collision is roughly 1,000 times brighter than the death of a massive star called a supernova. And they say it produced several hundred planets\u2019 worth of gold and platinum.<\/p>\n<p>But astronomers almost missed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a cosmic collision that has astronomers rethinking one of the universe\u2019s most colossal events: the collision of massive stars. In a new paper published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers reveal the finding of a kilonova produced by the collision of two massive stellar objects called neutron stars. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95663","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=95663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}