About 1.1 billion light years away, two neutron stars merged. The collision stripped material off the neutron stars, resulting in a kilonova explosion and a gamma-ray burst.
But when the GRB was identified...
Last October, Northwestern fourth-year Ph.D. student Jillian Rastinejad woke up in the early morning while visiting colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara to apply for use of the Gemini-South...
