How many of you know about a neutron star
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Now, a neutron star is a compressed core of a massive star after a supernova
It is super dense
It has a mass of a sun but squeezed into a size of a football ground even the smallest
neutron stars way around billions of tons a
Matchbox sized neutron star can have a mass of 2 to 3 billion tons
Neutron stars are bright. They can be seen by the Hubble Space Telescope
By the radio pulses they give out
neutron stars are extremely hot and have really strong fields that if one of these enter our solar
System it would rip orbits away and can cause planets to collide and collapse
The closest neutron star is 500 light years away
Neutron stars doesn't only contain neutrons. They even have electrons and protons turning into neutrons
they emit high-energy beams from its poles if
something tries to touch these massive objects
It would get sucked into it and gets feed into its mass
neutrons if it gets enough mass it will turn to a black hole if
We get to the topic of gravity the gravity of neutron stars
Will be more than 2 billion times stronger than the gravity on earth
This gravity makes the particles to stick to the core of it. It is strong enough to bend the incoming radiation
And light towards it and let us observe distant galaxies or stars behind it
It lives for almost a million years. It gets cooled by emitting radiation. It gets colder and colder
Some of the oldest neutron stars. Yes, they never die. Sometimes it might even collapse
So what about collision of these massive things?
They move in spirals and their merger leads to a black hole or a more heavier and brighter neutron star
This collision causes pulses of radiations to spread out in space
they move at massive speeds and thousands of rotations per second a
Heavier neutron star moves at thousands of kilometres per second
There are two main properties of neutron stars
Rotation and magnetic field, two main types of neutron stars based on this are
Pulsars, pulsars are types of neutron stars rotating at high speeds
Magnetars, magnetars are neutron stars with very high magnetic field
Pulsars have really high rotation speeds. They give pulses of radiation away and extremely dangerous
these
radiations contain gamma bursts, x-rays,
UV rays.
To an observer at a distance. It looks like it's blinking on and off. They slow down as they age
These pulsars have high levels of electromagnetic radiation including gamma
Brightest pulsar is Vela pulsar
Next are magnetars
Magnetars are extremely magnetized neutron stars with a magnetic field
1,000 times more magnetic field than ordinary neutron stars
These are extremely powerful one of these can pull our entire solar system
towards it and can wipe every credit card away and
Can cause destruction to our galaxies. Pulsars and Magnetars
are one of the main types of neutron stars other types are radio pulsars,
recycled pulsars,
Millisecond pulsars, soft gamma-ray repeater, x-ray pulsar
Accretion powered pulsar, Mass Based x-ray binaries
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