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Mystery of Where Gold and Platinum Come from Deepens After Gargantuan Explosion
The brightest gamma-ray burst of all time came from a supernova but mysteriously didn't show signs of heavy elements.
Now, a group of researchers has examined the event with the Webb Space Telescope and concluded that the BOAT’s cause was a supernova: an explosive and brilliant death of a star. But it is “likely the brightest burst at X-ray and gamma-ray energies to occur since human civilization began,” according to Eric Burns, an astrophysicist at Louisiana State University a co-author of a study describing the signal. One of the facilities with the most hype around it is the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, which will use a 3.2-billion-pixel camera to collect terabytes of data on the southern sky every night.
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