Gold From A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Monday earlier this week the internet exploded with the news from ESO that two neutron stars merged in the galaxy NGC4993 located 130 million light years away. This was measured on August 17 this year and the discovery was therefore named GW170817, which is short for ‘Gravitational Wave on August 17, 2017’ as measured by LIGO in USA and Virgo in Europe.