Artist’s concept of a magnetar undergoing a powerful flare. Scientists now believe that flares from magnetars – highly magnetized, compact, dead stars – can create heavy elements, such as gold
Artist’s concept of a magnetar undergoing a powerful flare. Scientists now believe that flares from magnetars – highly magnetized, compact, dead stars – can create heavy elements, such as gold
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Left: Image of the Sun with Earth superimposed on the same scale. Upper-right: Radial-velocity time-series of the Sun (green points), obtained with the HARPS-N solar telescope (Dumusque et al., 2021),
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