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Our kitchen bin right now- "The resulting neutron-packed object is almost beyond human comprehension......a single cubic centimeter of a neutron star, a portion roughly a fourth of the size of a standard six-sided die, would weigh 100 million metric tons."
20 years ago today, a tiny neutron star reached halfway across the galaxy and slammed our planet with a gamma-ray hammer.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-e...
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www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-e...
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An Earth-Rocking Cosmic Explosion Turns 20
Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away
www.scientificamerican.com
December 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Our kitchen bin right now- "The resulting neutron-packed object is almost beyond human comprehension......a single cubic centimeter of a neutron star, a portion roughly a fourth of the size of a standard six-sided die, would weigh 100 million metric tons."