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My favorite new thing I learned from this was: > while larger stars will form neutron stars (which are essentially giant atomic nuclei) I had never heard that
by whoisthemachine 4y ago
My favorite new thing I learned from this was:
> while larger stars will form neutron stars (which are essentially giant atomic nuclei)
I had never heard that description before, and it's fascinating to think about!
- aardvark179 4y agoNeutron stars behave somewhat like giant nuclei, but only somewhat. We don’t even really good models of how their cores behave, maybe it’s a quark-gluon plasma, but we just don’t have a good enough model of matter to know.