Astronomers have found a missing link in the evolutionary progressing of colliding neutron stars, in the form of stripped, intermediate-mass helium stars.
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This discovery marks a missing link in our picture of stellar evolution toward systems with merging neutron stars, which are crucial to our understanding of the origin of heavy elements, such as silver and gold
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