Hubble spots ultra-speedy jet blasting from star crash - EurekAlert

Hubble spots ultra-speedy jet blasting from star crash - EurekAlert
Neutron stars are the "trash-compacted" surviving cores of massive stars that exploded. Weighing more than our Sun, they would fit inside New York City. At this unimaginable density, one teaspoon of surface material would weigh at least 4 billion tons on Eart…
image: This is an artist's impression of two neutron stars colliding. The smashup between two dense stellar remnants unleashes the energy of 1,000 standard stellar nova explosions. In the aftermath o… [+5509 chars] Read More



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