300 Earths' worth of heavy metals forged in powerful cosmic explosion

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An artist's impression of a neutron star collision, like the one that has produced a recent, powerful gamma ray burst

Astronomers have detected one of the most energetic explosions in the history of the universe – a gamma ray burst thrown off by two neutron stars colliding. And for the first time ever, heavy metals were detected being produced in the explosion, totaling hundreds of Earths in mass.

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