Creation of Gold in a Never Before Seen Way Using Magnetars

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the unusual new way that universe creates heavy elements using magnetars
Links:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03525
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc9b0
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/509/1/1377/6384847?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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0:00 Alchemy and the goal of gold transmutation
1:10 Gold formation in the universe
1:50 Gravitational wave and a kilonova
3:48 Collapsing stars and black holes can also create gold?
6:00 New way to generate gold - strange new magnetar explosions
8:40 What was observed and why it was exciting
9:50 What's next? Conclusions

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