There is a moment in every kilonova explosion, the collision of two dying stars, where temperatures reach billions of degrees and the universe forges something new. Gold. Platinum. The heavy metals that make up your jewelry, your phone, the circuits in the device you are reading this on.

All of it came from a collision. All of it came from destruction becoming creation.

That is the story of KILONOVA. And in many ways, it is my story too.