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The smooth and youthful skin of a baby neutron star

arstechnica.com — Researchers make the first observations of the atmosphere of a single neutron star.

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  • mkriss5681, on 11/09/2009, -0/+15In scientific terms, a neutron star is so dense a spoonful would ***** your ***** all up here on Earth.
  • combatchuck, on 11/09/2009, -0/+8A neutron star is so dense that it causes a gravity lens making more than 50% of itself visible from any side.
  • mkriss5681, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7Jokes aside, if you could magically transport it here a teaspoon of the stuff would pretty much just explode to be mass and volume of Mount Everest here on earth if it was free of the neutron stars gravity.
  • TheInformer, on 11/09/2009, -0/+7One spoonful of organic neutron star ruins your diet.

    Permanently.
  • davidlick, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6" ... it can accelerate the hell out of charged particles ... "

    Interesting word choice.
  • SplashBot, on 11/25/2009, -1/+6What a ridiculous title
  • ultraseamus, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3I was thinking it would be better to have Pedobear with stars for eyes.
  • AtomicTheory, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Mmmm nice and supple
  • sleestakslayer, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2You would need a very sturdy spoon.
  • michirican123, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2ooooh... pretty.
  • JROXZ, on 11/09/2009, -4/+6Pedobear with a Space Helmet FTW!
  • ParticleMan420, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2its a zoom of a star... and go to apod and put 'Cassiopeia A' in a search
  • Cyberdactyl, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1An excellent hard sci-fi novel by Robert Forward "Dragon's Egg" goes into splendid detail describing the surface of a neutron star. He also fleshes out a living ecology.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
  • Kain4k, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2I so understand this explosion ....
  • insanebrain, on 11/09/2009, -1/+1anyone has a APOD picture of this without zoom of the planet ?

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