Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to research a bright gamma-ray burst from a space explosion, allowing them to find the chemical element tellurium.
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This particular burst, called GRB 230307A, was likely created when two neutron stars - the incredibly dense remnants of stars after a supernova - merged in a galaxy about one billion light-years away.
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