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Cosmic Gold Mine Solves Decades-Old Mystery

Creating the heaviest elements requires extreme circumstances: now, for the first time, scientists have found direct evidence of how and where they are forged.

Cosmic Gold Mine Solves Decades-Old Mystery

[DIGEST: Science Daily, Kavli Foundation]

For decades, scientists have moved slowly toward an explanation of how the heaviest elements in nature are made. Now, by observing the starlight from a dwarf galaxy 98,000 light-years away, researchers have found the first direct evidence for their source.

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