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Neutron stars are detected from their electromagnetic radiation. Neutron stars are usually observed to pulse radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation, and neutron stars observed with pulses are called pulsars.
23 Οκτ 2024 · neutron star, any of a class of extremely dense, compact stars thought to be composed primarily of neutrons. Neutron stars are typically about 20 km (12 miles) in diameter. Their masses range between 1.18 and 1.97 times that of the Sun, but most are 1.35 times that of the Sun.
Neutron stars are some of the densest manifestations of massive objects in the universe. They are ideal astrophysical laboratories for testing theories of dense matter physics and provide connections among nuclear physics, particle physics, and astrophysics.
27 Δεκ 2023 · From their crushing gravity to the universe’s strongest magnetic fields, extremes of physics are the norm for neutron stars. And, unlike black holes, these exotic objects are observable.
24 Μαΐ 2023 · Neutron stars are the remains of the cores of massive stars that have reached the end of their lives. They are one of the two possible evolutionary endpoints of the most massive...
Neutron stars are not the sole objects in whose depth matter is compressed to high densities inaccessible in laboratory. Other representatives of the class of compact stars are white dwarfs and hypothetical quark stars [2]. While the size of a neutron star mainly depends on the balance between gravity force and degenerate neutron
23 Σεπ 2021 · A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth's mass into a sphere about 12 miles across, or similar in size to Manhattan Island, as shown in this illustration.