{"id":390473,"date":"2017-10-16T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ebc5d5e621d18eb9bf87a3e66de21c99"},"modified":"2017-10-16T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T14:01:00","slug":"astronomers-strike-gravitational-gold-in-colliding-neutron-stars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=390473","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/10\/16\/neutron-merger1_wide-d8e88349132207aa90972b579dc0988c28c2d40b.jpg?s=600' alt='The collision of two neutron stars, seen in an artist's rendering, created both gravitational waves and gamma rays. Researchers used those signals to locate the event with optical telescopes.'\/><\/p>\n<p>In an astonishing discovery, astronomers used gravitational waves to locate two neutron stars smashing together. The collision created 200 Earth masses of pure gold, along with other elements.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Robin Dienel\/Carnegie Institution for Science)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=557557544' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an astonishing discovery, astronomers used gravitational waves to locate two neutron stars smashing together. The collision created 200 Earth masses of pure gold, along with other elements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390474,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390473\/revisions\/390474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}