Episode 377: 328 - Kilonova

Published: Oct. 20, 2017, 6:45 p.m.

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Astronomers have made the groundbreaking detection of two neutron stars colliding in a galaxy 130 million light years away. They detected the gravitational waves AND the blast of radiation released from the collision, observing a kilonova for the first time.

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