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Neutron Star (short story)

"Neutron Star" is an English language science fiction short story by American writer Larry Niven. It was originally published in the October 1966 issue (Issue 107, Vol 16, No 10) of Worlds of If. It was later reprinted in the collection of the same name and Crashlander. The story is set in Niven's fictional Known Space universe. It is notable for including a neutron star before their (then hypothetical) existence was widely known. "Neutron Star" is the first to feature Beowulf Shaeffer, the ex-pilot and reluctant hero of many of Niven's Known Space stories. It also marked the first appearance of the nearly indestructible General Products starship hull, as well as its creators, the Pierson's Puppeteers. The star itself, BVS-1, is featured in the novel Protector (1973), where it is named "Phssthpok's Star". A prelude to the story is also included in the novel Juggler of Worlds. (Wikipedia).

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What are neutron stars? (Astronomy)

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What Are Neutron Stars?

When a dying star is too massive to leave behind a white dwarf and not massive enough to leave behind a black hole, you get a neutron star (sometimes a pulsar). It's a very compact clump of neutrons surrounded by a very strong magnetic field. These things are crazy!! ______________________

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Birth & Death of Stars - Part 2/4

Birth & Death of Stars part 2. I gave this lecture at Northwestern University in 2003 for the general public.

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Teach Astronomy - Properties of Neutron Stars

http://www.teachastronomy.com/ Neutron stars are truly remarkable objects. Think of something with the mass of the Sun, normally one and a half million kilometers across, compressed down to the size of a small asteroid, about twenty kilometers across. Conservation of angular momentum dic

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The Alchemy of Neutron Star Collisions

PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE ↓ More info below ↓ Carl Sagan’s famous words: “We are star stuff” refers to a mind-blowing idea – that most atomic nuclei in our bodies were created in the nuclear furnace an

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Astronomy - Ch. 22: Neutron Star (2 of 17) How Does a Neutron Star Form?

Visit http://ilectureonline.com for more math and science lectures! To donate: http://www.ilectureonline.com/donate https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3236071 We will learn a neutron star form when a super massive red giant (at a last stage) when it elements are fused into heavier elements f

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Astronomy - Ch. 22: Neutron Star (1 of 17) What is a Neutron Star?

Visit http://ilectureonline.com for more math and science lectures! To donate: http://www.ilectureonline.com/donate https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3236071 We will learn a neutron star is the remnant of the collapse of he core of a super massive star (greater than 8 times the of our Sun).

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Neutron Stars: The Most Extreme Objects in the Universe

Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime We’ve traveled to lots of weird places on this show - from the interiors of black holes to the time before the big bang. But today I want to take you on a journey to what has got to be the wei

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The life cycle of a neutron star - David Lunney

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-life-cycle-of-a-neutron-star-david-lunney About once every century, a massive star somewhere in our galaxy runs out of fuel. No longer able to produce sufficient energy to maintain

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The Tale of a Neutron Star Collision

It's story time at the Cool Worlds Lab as we recount the recent amazing tale of GW 170817. A tale of two cosmic siblings who lived, died and then finally merged together to create one of the spectacular astronomy discoveries of all time. Featuring massive stars, supernovae explosions, coll

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Gamma-Ray Bursts: Crash Course Astronomy #40

Gamma-ray bursts are not only incredible to study, but their discovery has an epic story all its own. Today Phil takes you through some Cold War history and then dives into what we know. Bursts come in two rough varieties: Long and short. Long ones are from hypernovae, massive stars explod

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LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave News (Panel 2)

Original air date: Oct. 16, 2017 at 11:15 a.m. ET (8:15 a.m. PT, 1515 UTC). The National Science Foundation brought scientists from the LIGO and Virgo collaborations, as well as representatives for some 70 observatories at the National Press Club in Washington. The gathering began with an

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LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave News (Panel 1)

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Formation and evolution of compact binaries (Lecture - 04) by Tomasz Bulik

Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy DATE: 17 July 2017 to 28 July 2017 VENUE: Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore This school is a part of the annual ICTS summer schools in gravitational wave astronomy. This year’s school will focus on the physics and astrophysics of compact

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Learn about Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Energy, and the Periodic Table of Elements

The fabled "philosopher's stone" of centuries-old alchemy was always right under our noses—but it wasn't found through chemistry. Nuclear physics shows how one atom can change into another and how some stars are just supersized nuclei. Grab a radiation suit and get ready to go nuclear. Pr

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The First Few Minutes of the Universe

Today in the universe, major changes take billions of years—in the beginning, they happened a millisecond after the Big Bang began, then a second later, then a minute later. These changes are due to temperatures and their effects on the building blocks of the universe. Grab a bottle of SPF

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The s-Process - Sixty Symbols

Stars can forge elements using two important methods - the slow and rapid processes of adding neutrons to an atomic nucleus. Featuring Professor Mike Merrifield. Extra footage: https://youtu.be/iYguNPf1Jp8 Periodic Videos: https://www.youtube.com/periodicvideos Deep Sky Videos: https://www

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Birth & Death of Stars at Northwestern - Part 2/4

I gave this lecture at Northwestern University in 2003 for the general public.

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The equation of state from neutron star post-merger remnants by Paul Lasky

PROGRAM VIRTUAL MEETING ON COMPACT STARS AND QCD 2020 (ORIGINALLY "COMPACT STARS IN THE QCD PHASE DIAGRAM VIII: THE ERA OF MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY") ORGANIZERS: Manjari Bagchi, Sarmistha Banik, Sudip Bhattacharyya, Prashanth Jaikumar, V. Ravindran and Sayantan Sharma DATE: 17 August

From playlist Virtual Meeting on Compact Stars and Qcd 2020 (Originally "Compact Stars in The Qcd Phase Diagram Viii: The Era of Multi-messenger Astronomy") 2020

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