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Recent Examples of neutron star
As the star's core rapidly crushes down to form a neutron star, the outer layers and most of the star's mass are blown away in a core-collapse supernova.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
One of those stars would be a small, super-dense neutron star and the other would be some sort of orbiting companion star.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
Magnetars are a type of neutron star with incredibly strong magnetic fields — a lot stronger than those of typical neutron stars, which can cause the magnetar to release enormous bursts of energy in just a fraction of a second.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The findings, published in the same issue of Nature, provide additional support that a neutron star created the fast radio burst.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
One of those stars would be a small, super-dense neutron star and the other would be some sort of orbiting companion star.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
Magnetars are a type of neutron star with incredibly strong magnetic fields — a lot stronger than those of typical neutron stars, which can cause the magnetar to release enormous bursts of energy in just a fraction of a second.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 21 Feb. 2025
The findings, published in the same issue of Nature, provide additional support that a neutron star created the fast radio burst.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neutron star
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Astronomers have theorized that supernovas such as these are caused by two white dwarfs orbiting each other in a binary star system, when one of them consumes the other.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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The binary star system discovered in the new study is the heaviest of its kind that's ever been confirmed, with a combined mass that's 1.56 times that of the sun.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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One day this boy wants to be a red star inside those red walls.—
Michael Walker,
The Athletic,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Hubble image captures the nebula's diverse stellar population, which includes hot, young blue stars and older red stars, scattered among intricately woven, airy tendrils of gas and dark clumps of dust.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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Among the supernovas in the data will be other transient events such as variable stars and kilonovas, the violent collision between extreme dense stellar remnants called neutron stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and had identified 1,800 variable stars within them.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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The model developed by the team found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously, making Earth-like planets possible around white dwarfs.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The material sits on the surface of the white dwarf until there is enough material to ignite a thermonuclear runaway explosion -- a buildup of pressure and heat.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
31 Oct. 2024
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Pollux is a single giant star, more than 10 times the diameter of our sun, and shining a little more than 34 light-years away, with one light-year equaling almost 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2025
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And then, critically, the giant star’s core runs out of helium fuel.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
7 Apr. 2025
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There are simply too many variables to consider, including the genetic influence of does on their male offspring and the role that maturity plays in antler growth.—
Andrew McKean,
Outdoor Life,
17 Apr. 2025
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Companies isolate variables, split audiences into test and control groups and measure new experiences against existing ones.—
Amit Ashkenazi,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
8 Apr. 2025
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Type 1a supernovas are very helpful for scientists, because supernovas tend to explode with roughly the same amount of energy.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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On the matter of planet or brown dwarf, Stefánsson's team remain open-minded.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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This graphic compares a Sun-like star with a red dwarf, a typical brown dwarf, an ultra-cool brown dwarf, and a planet like Jupiter.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Jan. 2025
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutron%20star. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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