How to Use neutron star in a Sentence

neutron star

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  • The largest stars will die and give way to neutron stars and black holes.
    — Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • That's about 10 times greater than the pressure seen at the heart of a neutron star.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
  • X-Ray Images And the source of these X-rays — the black hole or neutron star — is tiny.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The point at the center could be the neutron star remnant of the exploded star.
    — Giuseppina Fabbiano, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
  • At that time, the neutron star released a massive burst of X-rays.
    — Fox News, 19 June 2020
  • The neutron star is a fast-spinning type known as a pulsar.
    — Mike Wall, NBC News, 5 July 2018
  • The remnant of this outburst is a neutron star, which is small but very dense.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 June 2020
  • In the known universe, there is nothing quite like a neutron star.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 May 2021
  • What’s not clear is whether SN 1987A’s remnant is just a neutron star.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The neutron star merger presents some puzzles of its own.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 16 Oct. 2017
  • That's very slow; some neutron stars can spin many times per second.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Black holes and neutron stars form when large stars run out of fuel and collapse.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • But for stars in between, that remnant is a neutron star.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 30 May 2018
  • Since then, Vogt's team has published more findings about the neutron star.
    — Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com, 31 May 2018
  • What remains is a dense neutron star with a little more mass than our sun.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2021
  • Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, a black hole swallowed a neutron star.
    — Wilson Wong, NBC News, 29 June 2021
  • As the stellar dust settles, the remains include a neutron star or a black hole.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 May 2019
  • This gave Vogt and his team the neutron star's location: at the center of the expanding ring.
    — Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com, 31 May 2018
  • The powerful bursts could be linked to the orbital motion of a massive star, a neutron star or a black hole.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020
  • These are the conditions that take a neutron star merger and create a blitzar.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But neutron stars are the least complicated of all stars.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
  • What neutron star is spinning slowly enough to beam at Earth for three seconds at a time?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • Astronomers are geeked about seeing for the first time two neutron stars collide.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
  • There's little doubt that the smaller object is either a neutron star or a black hole.
    — Jordan Nutting, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2020
  • Astronomers weren’t quite sure where short gamma ray bursts came from, but figured that a crash of neutron stars was a good bet.
    — Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The burst could also have been the result of a neutron star being torn apart by its companion black hole.
    — Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Anything below three times the mass of our sun is considered a neutron star.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • As a result, its core collapses into a neutron star or a black hole, taking most of the star out with it.
    — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
  • That means neutron star magnetic fields are trillions of times stronger than Earth’s.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • Enlarge / Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, the relics of massive stars gone supernova.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023

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