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This ‘kilonova’ shines so bright, it defies the odds
An artist's representation of the kilonova spotted by telescopes like Hubble. Kilonovas are as much as 1,000 times brighter than typical novas. (NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI)/)Back in May, astronomers noted an overwhelming pulse in gamma rays on a variety of instruments. Intrigued, they scrambled to train telescopes toward the source. Their hustle paid off—using the Hubble Space Telescope, the Swift Observatory, and a handful of other ground-based scopes, they saw what appeared to be two neutron stars smacking into each other, producing a mega bright flash of infrared light.It gets weirder. As the Northwestern University researchers note in their arXiv study (which was announced for publi

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