The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the next of NASA’s Great Observatories; following in the line of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-ray
“All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.” -Cesare Pavese
After another Universe-investigating week here at Starts With A Bang, I'm pleased to make two simple but very satisfying announcements:
“There’s no god, it’s the elements that control this world and everything on it.” -Scott A. Butler
From hydrogen through uranium and even beyond, the Universe gives us a huge variety of elements that can bond together in practically innumerable ways, creating all the matter we've ever observed in existence. Everything beyond helium in the periodic table way made inside of stars, but not all stars create elements equally.
Astronomers have detected a second source of powerful X-rays coming from the aftermath of a pair of colliding neutron stars, indicating either the shrapnel from the explosion is slamming into material that surrounded the event, or that the aftermath of the merger created a black hole, and now material is falling onto it.
Either way, whoa.
A wee bit of background: