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Ejecta

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When neutron stars merge, they can produce radioactive ejecta that powers a kilonova signal, as this conceptual image shows. A recently observed gamma-ray burst looked like the emissions from a supernova but turned out to signal a previously undetected hybrid event involving a kilonova

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