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Neutron stars vary in size, the comparison to a city is to give the rough order of magnitude, not the specific size. The rough order of magnitude in this case
by noneeeed 4y ago
Neutron stars vary in size, the comparison to a city is to give the rough order of magnitude, not the specific size.
The rough order of magnitude in this case is “big, but not incomprehensible so” unlike most objects in cosmology which are incomprehensibly massive.