New telescope will hunt for neutron stars colliding - Interesting Engineering

There's a new telescope called the Gravitational Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO), and it will have the difficult task of spotting neutron stars as they collide.

When this occurs, the suns release a gravitational wave that distorts space. It is this phenomenon that the new telescope spots and focuses on to capture the suns' collision. However, despite the po… [+1368 chars]

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