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For the First Time Ever, Scientists Have Witnessed the Birth of a Heavy Atom

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When stars die, they turn from hydrogen to helium to carbon and on and on, until they hit iron.

Iron is a terrible fuel, but eventually, it’s just not enough, and the universe produces more than iron.

In a recent study that appears in Astronomy and Astrophysics , scientists describe watching these elements be produced for the very first time in a kilonova .

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