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The explosive source of gold

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There is a finite amount of gold and other heavy metals on earth because they were formed before earth came to existence in its current form. New research shows that gold may be formed from magnetar flares as well as the merging of neutron stars.

Guest: Anirudh Patel, doctoral student in astrophysics at Columbia University and lead author on a new paper on magnetars published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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There is a finite amount of gold and other heavy metals on earth because they were formed before earth came to existence in its current form. New research shows that gold may be formed from magnetar flares as well as the merging of neutron stars.

Guest: Anirudh Patel, doctoral student in astrophysics at Columbia University and lead author on a new paper on magnetars published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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