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Carnegie Lecture: Astronomical Alchemy: The Origin of the Elements
Posted on Mon., May 21, 2018
Maria Drout, Hubble, Carnegie-Dunlap Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, discusses how a recent discovery of a "kilonova" associated with the cataclysmic merger of two neutron stars has filled in one of the final pieces of the elemental puzzle: the origin of many of the heaviest elements in the universe.
