NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has provisionally detected the faint afterglow of the explosive merger of two neutron stars in the galaxy NGC 4993. This image shows the Spitzer data, but the faint light from the explosion is to faint to be easily seen mi

A Merger of Stars

Launched 15 years ago, the Spitzer Space Telescope has made many discoveries, including this detection of the merger of two neutron stars.

To source

, ,

Comments are closed.

Space, astronomy and science