The Exotic World of Neutron Stars

[weirdscience81]

If you belive in a perfect Universe you cant but helpt to think what these neutron stars might have for function? Yes they were enormously important as Stars but maybe they even play a key role in the Universe as a neutron stars? Maybe theyre not just corpses in the Universe? Makes you think... pardon my english...im from sweden.....:)

[EricNyhmfan]

That would suck if a neutron star had a starquake so great that a piece of it flew off (1 meter wide) and then had just enough gravity to make itself into a ball then floated off toward our solar system then crashed into earth ....or would earth crash into it?

[weirdscience81]

@EricNyhmfan If a peice would fly away the gravity of the neutron star would just smack in right back into it again. I dont even think you can make a neutron star shatter into peices even if two neutron stars collided with each other. It would make a spektacular astronomical show. But in the end they would just fuse into one neutron star. Think about this. A bit heavier and the neutron star would have become a black hole. And we know not even light can escape that.......

[deadanimalcorpse]

Lol imagine that you are carrying a 1 kg weighting thing on your hands in earth.

If you were in neutron star it would weight about 14000000000 kg.

Not joking.

[AnimeFanatic5602]

Every centimeter cubed weighs about 100,000 tons. Imagine a six mile wide solid ball of that spinning thousands, if not millions, of times every second. The true wonder of the universe is beyond even the wildest imaginings of the human mind.

[TimpBizkit]

It would be a terrifying experience to bring one of those close to earth and watch from space the earth's crust rips away from from its surface and onto this tiny dense hard ball weighing 500,000 times as much! It's hard to imagine a 12 mile wide ball that makes the moon look enormous, but heavy enough to alter the orbit of the sun!

[TimpBizkit]

Gravity 100 billion times stronger than earth, so you could be flying along in your space ship and.

"Ooh look, I see a neutron star"

"Where? AAAAAAHHH SHIIII" - SPLAT!! -

[russell7771181]

hey NAsaTv - didnt delete your comment - just have the viewing for approval option thing on - which is obviously a wise thing as you are straight away calling me names in a derogatory fashion!

ok just thought i'd point it out - have a nice day.

[charliemant]

Are you a Creationists

[drizztman101]

lol, screw fusion. all we need is a magnatar and we have free energy for ever.

[blazednlovinit]

lol yeah, i just stumbled over one of those the other day, much more common than fusion.... /sarcasm

[drizztman101]

good point lol

[blazednlovinit]

lol @ ivanmontelongo

the scary thing is, i think he is serious

[ivanmontelongo]

This isn't Pokemon douchebag

[drizztman101]

lol dipshit, watch the video. Its a special type of neutron star.

[EricNyhmfan]

@drizztman101 To bad we would be sucked into it and crushed into neutronium or whatever its called.

[drizztman101]

Is is it possible for a neutron star to gain mass from a collision? And if so would it be possible to pass scrocinders limit (i can never spell it right) and morph into a black hole, even after the initial collapse of the star.

[couerl]

Our sun does not have enough mass to become a nuetron star, but will rather go supernova and then probably turn into a brown dwarf.

[Nuker1337]

it will turn into a white dwarf star, which sits and cools down over the next trillion years.

[BajanCreation]

what is the suns mass?

[TimpBizkit]

2*10^30kg

[BajanCreation]

So when the sun burns out its gonna turn into a Neutron star and being that the sun is an enormous proportion, the resulting neutron star is going to suc up all the planets in our solar system,including ours. that's because of its enormous gravitational pull.

[Nuker1337]

study some physics please. First, the sun is not massive enough to become a neutron star, and the gravitational field will not be altered much even if the sun became a neutron star.

[BajanCreation]

Are you saying the sun is not a star? the sun is 100 million times larger than the earth, with that said u cant dismiss that fact. You talked about mass, why doesnt the sun have the mass that can form the neutron star though it is 100million times as large as the earth (using earth as then example). Anyway im no guru of science, i was just fascinated by the neutron star and its density. Hope u reply soon dude..........

[Nuker1337]

...the sun is a star all right. It is roughly 340,000 times more massive than earth, not 100 million times. There is this "border" called the chandrasekhar limit. It defines the point where the gravitational pressure from a star forces its protons and electrons to fuse into neutrons. This limit has been computed to be approximately 1.44 times our sun's mass. Everything less massive will become a white dwarf instead if a neutron star.

[BajanCreation]

thanks for the lesson dude, somehow this star has really got my attention. One day in the distant future i hope man can cross into these relms and bring about a new era in human existence.

[TimpBizkit]

Yeah, the sun isn't heavy enough for its own gravity to squish it down that small. White dwarf stars are fairly dense too, but neutron stars are in a different league entirely.

As the star shrinks, the force squashing it gets stronger and stronger (as gravity is acting over a smaller radius), and if the star starts off heavy enough, the force can squish it all the way to nothing. That's how a black hole is formed.

[ivanmontelongo]

...Learn to spell.

The sun is a star, but it's not big enough in mass to become a neutron star. Please learn something before you try to act all smart about it.

[BajanCreation]

wow im sorry i guess that trying to learn is irritating to you,im sure that youve come across tonnes of typos on the internet but hey i guess being a bitch about it is in your nature. You should chech out the density of your head and next time dont be quick to be an asshole.

[nakawoopahkapooski]

What song is that which plays throughout the majority of the video?

[nuetronstar]

Robert L. Forward wrote some wonderful books about theoretical life on a nuetron star...Dragon's Egg was one...they are really imaginative and entertaining and yet also faithful to hard science.

[imworthmoney]

wow pretty informative thank you very much for posting