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Neutron star
When a metal-rich, massive supergiant star collapses, it forms a neutron star. These stars are the smallest and densest of all known stellar objects and have a radius in the order of six miles and a mass about 1.4 times that of the Sun.
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FEB 21, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
As many believe, the Big Bang started our universe. But not everyone is aware that the early world is nothing like what
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
NOV 29, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
60 years ago in the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), the DOE's cutting-edge nuclear research facility located o
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
OCT 14, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Physicists have long suspected that beyond the 3+1 dimensions that we are familiar with, there might exist additional sp
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 13, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Is there anything in the universe that can travel faster than light? A recent report in the journal Nature declared
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUL 13, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
A high-energy neutrino signal has been traced back to its source for the first time in astronomical history, according t
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 29, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
According to a latest study published on Physical Review Letters, a team of physicists from University of Toronto made a
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 26, 2018
Space & Astronomy
Neutrons stars are unimaginably dense, and perhaps even the densest-known objects in the entire universe. They can be as
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 21, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
The pulsar is often compared to lighthouses because it emits beams of electromagnetic radiation that are pointed toward
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 16, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
In a recent paper in the journal Physical Review D, a group of European physicists
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAY 30, 2018
Space & Astronomy
1E 0102.2-7219 is the name given to a newly-discovered neutron star that astronomers discovered while observing the dist
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 08, 2018
Videos
What objects combine giant balls of neutrons, black holes, the search for aliens, and doomed stars? Apparently, a phenom
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
APR 05, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Physicists have long pondered the question: why is our universe made mostly of matter but not antimatter? Theoretically,
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JAN 09, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
There is an extinction scenario that human kind has not paid enough attention to: gamma-ray bursts. To astronomers
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
DEC 01, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
Neutrinos are one of the most plentiful yet elusive fundamental particles out there. They are close to the more familiar
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
OCT 18, 2017
Space & Astronomy
It was just a few days ago that astronomers announced a breakthrough in gravitational wave research, and NASA deployed t
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 16, 2017
Space & Astronomy
If you’ve been following astronomical research for the last couple of years, then you’ve likely caught wind
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 12, 2017
Chemistry & Physics
On July 10, a team of researchers from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that they confirm
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUL 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Gravitational waves are still somewhat of a new concept to astronomers and astrophysicists because they were only just d
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 04, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Gravitational waves are still somewhat of a mystery to even the brightest physicists because they’re such a new co
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 28, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Black holes are somewhat of a marvel of space. Although we know they’re there, we don’t have many observatio
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 09, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Some 1,500 light years away in the Orion Molecular Cloud 1 (OMC-1), an explosion resembling the colorfulness and shape o
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
FEB 08, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Pulsars are one of the things astronomers have a hard time understanding. We have a pretty good idea of what they are, b
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 27, 2017
Space & Astronomy
Because the universe is so vast, examining it up close and in person with the processing power of a single computer is a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 15, 2017
Videos
Did you know that gold actually comes from the stars? Well, it technically comes from the explosion of a star - a supern
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan