Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics claim that the collision of two neutron stars is the likely source of precious metals. Neutron stars are remnants of massive stars. They are not that frequent in space and their collision is even less likely. It seems that the gold you wear around your fingers was formed in such a collision. Alchemists of medieval times probably would have been discouraged if they knew that the formation of gold requires enormously huge energies that can only be created by the collision of two superdense celestial bodies of which one teaspoon has the mass of 900 Egyptian pyramids. However, if these collisions are infrequent that means gold is not a rare material only on Earth but in the whole cosmos as well. Now that you know the scientific background of gold creation you have yet another reason for being proud of the family jewels you inherited from grandma.
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