This sprinkling of cosmic glitter makes up the galaxy known ... Telescope ESO 149-3 can be seen as a smattering of golden and blue stars, with no apparent central nucleus or arm structure.

"This is like a cosmic atom smasher ... stars spewed bright blue, super-hot debris that was dense and unstable. Some of it coalesced into heavy elements, like gold, platinum and uranium.

A study gives clues to cosmic origin of gold and heavy elements, and they were created earlier than we thought. IC-814 hijackers, Pulwama attackers among 100 terrorists killed in Op Sindoor ...

their cosmic origins largely remain a mystery. While iron is known to form in the fiery cores of stars, astrophysicists are still chasing down the sources of heavier elements, such as gold.