Magnetar Flares: Cosmic Alchemists?

[Paul Ferguson]

"Thanks to new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers now believe that magnetars —the universe’s most magnetic “zombie stars”— could be the real alchemists of space. And they do it not with polite star mergers, but with violent, chaotic flares that blast gold, platinum, and uranium into the cosmos in the span of a few seconds."

https://eladelantado.com/news/magnetars-...ames-webb/