Neutron star

:This article is about the celestial body. "Neutron Star" was a 1966 Hugo award winning short story by Larry Niven

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Neutron Star - 1966 - Hugo award - Larry Niven

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A neutron star is a type of degenerate star composed mostly of densely packed neutrons, generally about 25 km in diameter and as massive as an average star. Stars that are more than about 8 times more massive at birth than the Sun collapse into neutron stars when they go supernova. Neutron stars thus represent a sort of middle ground between white dwarfs and black holes. Neutron stars were among the first major astronomical objects whose existence was first predicted from theory (1933) and later (1967) found to exist, at first as radio pulsars.

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Degenerate star - Sun - Supernova - White dwarf - Black hole - 1933 - 1967 - Pulsar

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