distinctive decoration with a gold star and purple background. Among the actions that qualified were dying “in military operations involving conflict with an opposing enemy force” or in a ...

The Gold Star Memorial Day Parade was front and center on Broadway in Downtown Columbia on Memorial Day after a six-year hiatus. Hundreds gathered along Broadway on Monday morning to honor and ...

After a six-year absence, the Gold Star Memorial Parade will return to the City of Columboa on Memorial Day, bringing with it ...

Soon after the Big Bang, powerful flares that came from magnetars, which are neutron stars with a strong magnetic field, […] ...

The memorial features a photo collage and background about the origin of the term “Gold Star Family.” During World War I, according to the memorial, American families displayed flags featuring ...

The true origins of the Earth’s heaviest elements like gold have eluded astrophysicists for decades. The prevailing scientific view is that neutron star collisions created gold and other heavy ...

A rupture in the crust of a highly magnetized neutron star, shown here in an artist ... giant flares could produce a planet's worth of gold, platinum, and uranium. "It's pretty incredible ...

a giant flare unleashed by a supermagnetized star. The astronomers calculated that such flares could be responsible for forging up to 10 percent of our galaxy’s gold, platinum and other heavy ...