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Credit/Provider	University of Warwick/Mark Garlick
Source	European Southern Observatory
Short title	Artist’s impression of merging neutron stars
Image title	This artist’s impression shows two tiny but very dense neutron stars at the point at which they merge and explode as a kilonova. Such a very rare event is expected to produce both gravitational waves and a short gamma-ray burst, both of which were observed on 17 August 2017 by LIGO–Virgo and Fermi/INTEGRAL respectively. Subsequent detailed observations with many ESO telescopes confirmed that this object, seen in the galaxy NGC 4993 about 130 million light-years from the Earth, is indeed a kilonova. Such objects are the main source of very heavy chemical elements, such as gold and platinum, in the Universe.
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	16:00, 16 October 2017
Contact information	http://www.eso.org Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
IIM version	4