I am always amazed when exciting scientific discoveries happen and no one seems to hear about it.
Why, this happens I'm not exactly sure. Maybe because the media is too busy telling us about other things. Still, when I heard about what happened on August. 17, 2017. I was amazed how the news didn't cover it. So I decided to do a post with a link to the story which reveals all.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/two-stars-slammed-into-each-other-and-solved-half-of-astronomys-problems-what-comes-next/
When you read this you'll see it has nothing to do with fiction or a book,
this is a real life mind-blowing discovery.
So here's how it started, scientist recorded waves hitting the earth from two laser observatories; one in the US. and one in Italy. Immediately, all telescopes were turned to where these waves were coming from. Within hours, discoveries started pouring in, such as how gold was forged in space and identified a new phenomenon called a kilonova.
In the next three weeks, other radio waves and x-rays waves began hitting the earth giving scientist even more information about the event.
This opened a whole new world to astronomers by answering questions that they'd been working to define for years, such as the rate at which our universe is expanding, the beginning and the end of our cosmology. And most of all how we study our universe. It is not as stagnant as astronomers believed. Events like this one that happened over 130 million years ago may just be visible to us on earth, but it will forever change how we view the cosmos.
I encourage you to click on the link and find out more about the universe in which we live.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/two-stars-slammed-into-each-other-and-solved-half-of-astronomys-problems-what-comes-next/
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. We live in an amazing galaxy.
Tina
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