Space Gold

Many satellites carry gold coated mylar sheets to protect them from solar heat according to nasa.

Space gold. The cosmic companion nsf ligo sonoma state university. Stars that fuse gold then spew it into space like this are even rarer. Now when you wrap you mind around that image it doesn t seem like very much especially when you digest the fact that the solar system is literally brimming with gold but scientists can t quite figure out where all this hard to make metal is being created. It s almost entirely made of metal including iron nickel and gold which has led astronomers to believe that it was originally the core of a.

There have been efforts from companies like planetary resources in the past in this area but they couldn t pinpoint a feasible approach to process the metals in space. Gold is a vital strategic resource in space nasa says. Spacegold is an asteroid mining project to bring back gold and platinum metals to earth. But even neutron stars plus magneto rotational supernovas together can t explain earth s bonanza of gold kobayashi and her.

Gold is formed in stars in the collisions of neutron stars shown here and in the eruptions of a particular type of supernova.