Scientists have confirmed what became of a star that exploded in a stunning supernova visible to Earth more than three decades ago: It morphed into a neutron star, one of the oddest objects in the universe. But NASA’s Webb Space Telescope cut through the clutter by peering in infrared light and saw two telltale chemical signatures — argon and sulfur …
Professor Vik Dhillon, an Indian-origin astrophysicist from the University of Sheffield in the UK, is part of a team that has brought humanity closer to understanding how the heaviest chemical elements are created in the universe using a high-end camera. A kilonova, resulting from the fusion of two dense neutron stars, holds significance as it’s thought to be the source …
