Breaking: the First Light from Two Neutron Stars Merging (IMAGE)

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Breaking: the First Light from Two Neutron Stars Merging

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Artist's concept of the explosive collision of two neutron stars. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 16, 2017, online issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.A. Coulter at University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source."

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Illustration by Robin Dienel courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science

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