Neutron Stars in 3 Minutes ~ Love physics
Published on Jan 31, 2016
Neutron Stars in 3 minutes.
Neutron stars are extremely dense objects formed by the collapse of
stars approximately 8- 20 times the mass of the sun.
The first neutron stars were supposed with the discoveries of pulsars in 1967. The rapid rotation of the neutron star coupled with its very large magnetic field shoots twin beams of energy away from the stars, sometimes these beams point toward the earth and sometimes away, so they appear to pulse, a bit like a lighthouse.
The mass of a dice sized space of neutronium would be about the same as 200 billion pineapples.
By Keir Lewis and Damon Cleaver
