NASA Will Find ‘Gold Factories’ In The Space With The Help Of A Shoe Box Size Satellite

NASA has launched a satellite. The great specialty of this satellite named BurstCube is that it is only as small as a shoebox. It is being claimed that this smallest satellite ever sent towards the International Space Station with SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Replenishment Service mission will search for gold factories in the space.

According to scientists, they are formed after the merger of two neutron stars in a distant galaxy. After merging together in a spiral direction, these stars emit huge amounts of energy as well as gravitational waves. These emit very powerful and intense energy where the temperature and density become very high, creating conditions for the formation of substances like gold and iodine. Such elements cannot be created anywhere else in the universe.

Now, to study this most powerful energetic phenomenon in the universe, the American space agency NASA has launched a satellite called BurstCube. BurstCube will study the mysteries of GRB’s origin as well as its characteristics. After reaching the space station, it will be openly placed in orbit. Despite being small, it will study extreme events. Astronomers will work on many mysteries with the information gathered through this. The position of its detectors will be kept such that eruptions occurring in very large areas can be detected.

Not only this, it will get a huge advantage of being in space, because it will be able to catch more and more waves from space which cannot reach the Earth’s surface due to its atmosphere. Apart from this, BurstCube will also identify gravity waves that emanate from GRBs. But these explosions emit the most gamma ray radiation, which is considered the most energetic electromagnetic waves. BurstCube’s instruments will be capable of detecting gamma ray bursts with energies ranging from 50 thousand to 1 million electron spins.