neutron star
noun
: a dense celestial object that consists primarily of closely packed neutrons and that results from the collapse of a much larger stellar body
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But those findings have yet to be linked to a white dwarf, a neutron star, or another source.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Like all neutron stars, magnetars are formed when massive stars run out of their fuel for nuclear fusion.
—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
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Like all neutron stars, magnetars are formed when massive stars run out of their fuel for nuclear fusion.
—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
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“Neutron star.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neutron%20star. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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