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Neutron Stars By Ryan Kelly and Brock

Published on Nov 26, 2015

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NEUTRON STARS

BY: BROCK RYAN AND KELLY
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DEFINITION

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PROPERTIES

THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD AT THE STAR'S SURFACE IS ABOUT 2×10,^11 TIMES STRONGER THAN ON EARTH.
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DENSITY

A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon (5 milliliters) of its material would have a mass over 5.5×10^12 kg (that is 1100 tonnes per 1 nanolitre), about 900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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TEMPRETURE

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DISCOVERY

PROPOSED BY: WALTER BAADE IN 1934 AND FIRST DOCUMENTED IN 1965 CALL
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FUN FACT

At present, there are about 2000 known neutron stars in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds.

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