In 2017 two neutron stars collided and forged heavy metals. The gold in your ring was probably born in a crash like that, before the Sun existed.
Imagery:
ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Gozaliasl, A. Koekemoer, M. Franco, and the COSMOS-Web team
ESO, ESA/Hubble & NASA
NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, USA), B. F. Williams (University of Washington, USA), L. C. Johnson (University of Washington, USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler.
ESO/S. Brunier
ESO/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard)
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