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Recent Examples of neutron star
Like all neutron stars, magnetars are formed when massive stars run out of their fuel for nuclear fusion.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
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.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2025
This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
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.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
That year observations of a merging neutron star revealed that gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves arrived at Earth within three seconds of each other—after traversing a distance of 130 million light-years.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2025
This is significant because globular clusters are associated with other powerful events associated with older stars, including the collisions and mergers of two neutron stars or a white dwarf collapsing under its own gravity.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neutron star
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The unprecedented observations of such bright, long radio bursts from this binary star system are just the beginning, astronomers say.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
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Astronomers suggest that supermassive black holes create hypervelocity stars when binary stars (a pair of stars gravitationally bound to each other) get too close.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Mar. 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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Hamal is a giant star in our Milky Way galaxy that dwarfs our sun with a diameter of at least 13 million miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
16 Mar. 2025
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Rising above 45 meters and crowned by a giant star of 17 meters in diameter, this walk-through tree offers light shows and music every hour from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and is accompanied by eight other trees of lights instead of hanging decoration.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
16 Dec. 2024
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Importantly, the two groups, only a few weeks apart in age, were not expected to differ significantly from one another, which would reduce the probability of confounding variables.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 Apr. 2025
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How other countries respond to the tariffs is another variable to consider.—
Jesse Pound,
CNBC,
4 Apr. 2025
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Identifying details in pre-explosion images can help inform the how, when and why supernovas occur.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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Over five years, their telescope in the Chilean Andes snapped high-resolution photographs of 12% of the sky, creating the most extensive catalog of supernovas to date and locating the same spherical shells traced out by many millions of galaxies (albeit with less precision than DESI).—
Charlie Wood,
Quanta Magazine,
19 Mar. 2025
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This provides scientists with valuable data on how their formation compares to that of a star or brown dwarf, the term given to large gaseous planets that fail to develop into stars.—
Javier Carbajal,
WIRED,
25 Mar. 2025
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This binary rate drops to near zero for the smallest stars, so as stellar bodies with even smaller masses, there should be very little chance of finding brown dwarfs in binaries.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutron%20star. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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