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The gravitational pull of the star's remains would have been strong enough to crush together protons and electrons to form neutrons, meaning a neutron star is mostly made of neutrons.
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Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 22 May 2025
Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2025
Overlaying Chandra's X-ray data (shown in bright blue) with the radio data reveals the likely cause of the fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out pulses of radiation at regular intervals.
—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 7 May 2025
Magnetars are an extremely bright type of neutron star with an incredibly powerful magnetic field.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 May 2025
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Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 22 May 2025
Magnetars are neutron stars—the highly dense, collapsed cores of exploded stars—with powerful magnetic fields.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2025
Overlaying Chandra's X-ray data (shown in bright blue) with the radio data reveals the likely cause of the fracture to be an impact from a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out pulses of radiation at regular intervals.
—Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 7 May 2025
Magnetars are an extremely bright type of neutron star with an incredibly powerful magnetic field.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 May 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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After converging, the binary star system will explode into a Type 1a supernova.—
Julian Dossett,
Space.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Steinhardt, however, has an alternate hypothesis: Some post-starburst galaxies may be, unbeknownst to us, slowly forming small, red stars over time.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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According to Nine Planets, Uy Scuti is a supergiant red star that’s located in the constellation named Scutum.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
25 Apr. 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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Indeed, most white dwarfs are seen to have extremely pure atmospheres of just those two lighter elements.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
28 Mar. 2025
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Sporadic radio pulses from a white dwarf binary at the orbital period Max Planck Institute.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Pollux is a giant star, while Castor is three stars orbiting each other.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the finale at the end of a giant star’s life.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The lab, founded in 1961, is still known worldwide for its computer modeling of the planet that enable scientists to make projections for how climate change may affect global temperatures, precipitation, extreme weather events and other variables.—
Andrew Freedman,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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Exposing environment variables to unknown inference endpoints off the security team’s radar.—
Anshu Bansal,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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The Doctor used the Vindicator, now a part of the Palace clock, to blast Omega with the power of a billion supernovas, forcing him back into his cage.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
31 May 2025
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Either way, supernovas produce a bevy of elements, from the lighter common ones to the rarer heavier ones.—
Robin George Andrews,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
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However, in this case, there are two brown dwarfs involved here.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
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Evidence for a polar circumbinary exoplanet orbiting a pair of eclipsing brown dwarfs.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neutron%20star. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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