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  "id": 14137386,
  "title": "China-US astronomy team may have found possible relic of a recent ‘gold factory’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/china-us-astronomy-team-may-have-found-possible-relic-of-a-recent-14137386",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-13T06:00:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3370141/china-us-astronomy-team-may-have-found-possible-relic-recent-gold-factory"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A mysterious glow of high-energy light in our Milky Way galaxy could be the remains of an extremely rare cosmic “gold factory”, according to a new study by Chinese and US researchers. The collision of two orbiting neutron stars – dead stars so dense that a teaspoon of their matter would weigh a billion tonnes – may have shone as brightly as Jupiter in the sky, they wrote in a paper posted last…",
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        "outlet": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
        "title": "China-US astronomy team may have found possible relic of a recent ‘gold factory’",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/china-us-astronomy-team-may-have-found-possible-relic-of-a-recent",
        "published": "2026-10-13T06:00:08.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}