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A fleet of NASA telescopes has identified a neutron star collision occurring inside a tiny galaxy embedded in a 600,000-light-year-long tidal stream — the debris of an even larger galactic merger — 4.7 billion light-years from Earth. The discovery, designated GRB 230906A and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on March 10, 2026, could resolve two longstanding astrophysics mysteries: why some gamma-ray bursts appear to lack host galaxies, and how heavy elements like gold and platinum became distributed in the remote outskirts of galaxies.