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Neutron Star (short story collection)

Neutron Star is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Larry Niven, published in April 1968. The individual stories were published in If and Galaxy Science Fiction in 1966–1967, under Frederik Pohl as editor. (Wikipedia).

Neutron Star (short story collection)
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What are neutron stars? (Astronomy)

Our Socratica Astronomy series is back! Bookmark the playlist here: ✷ https://socratica.link/Astro_Playlist We also ask you join our STELLAR email list so we can notify you when new videos go live: ✷ https://snu.socratica.com/astronomy (Don’t rely on the YT algorithm to show you what

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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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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

From playlist THE "HOW TO" PLAYLIST

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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

From playlist Neutron Stars Explained!

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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).

From playlist THE "WHAT IS" PLAYLIST

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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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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

From playlist Science

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What are Fast Radio Bursts? | The Royal Society

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short (few millisecond) bursts of radio waves observed from cosmological distances. Their origin is presently unknown, yet their rate is many hundreds per sky per day, indicating a not-uncommon phenomenon in the Universe. In this talk, Professor Kaspi reviewed

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LIGO/Virgo Gravitational Wave News (Panel 1)

Original air date: Oct. 16, 2017 at 10 a.m. ET (7 a.m. PT, 1400 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 overvi

From playlist Astrophysics

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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

From playlist Astronomy

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What Are Multiple Star Systems? Double, Triple, Even Seven Star Systems

Not all stars are alone. Some come in pairs and more. And when there are multiple stars in a system, watch the cosmic sparks fly. References: http://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-room/press-releases/1064-young-stellar-system-caught-in-act-of-forming-close-multiples https://www.cfa.harv

From playlist Stars

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The First Neutron Star Collision We've Ever Seen

To support SciShow Space and learn more about Brilliant, go to https://brilliant.org/scishowspace/. The results are in from the neutron star collision this past August! Astronomers are revealing what they’ve learned so far, with more pure gold research underway! We want to learn more abo

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How a Cosmic Kilonova Can Create Gold | How the Universe Works

After a neutron stars collide light years away, data indicates the possibility of heavy metals being formed, including elements such as gold! Stream Full Episodes of How the Universe Works: https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-the-universe-works/ Subscribe to Science Channel: htt

From playlist How the Universe Works

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The Particle Physics Song

A version of a famous tune by Flanders and Swann, with lyrics by Danuta Orlowska. Interpreted by CERN Choir, performing in the CERN Control Centre.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell Special Public Lecture: The Discovery of Pulsars

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, winner of the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, delivered a special talk at Perimeter Institute about her 1967 discovery of pulsars and her remarkable career in physics. Download free posters commemorating Bell Burnell and other pioneering wome

From playlist Public Lecture Series

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21 June 01Harald Pfeiffer Overview of current topics in numerical relativity

PROGRAM: NUMERICAL RELATIVITY DATES: Monday 10 Jun, 2013 - Friday 05 Jul, 2013 VENUE: ICTS-TIFR, IISc Campus, Bangalore DETAL Numerical relativity deals with solving Einstein's field equations using supercomputers. Numerical relativity is an essential tool for the accurate modeling of a wi

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Astronomy - Ch. 22: Neutron Star (12 of 17) History of the Discovery of the 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 about the discovery of the neutron star (pulsar) from being theorized by Baade and Zwicky in 1933 to the merger of 2 ne

From playlist ASTRONOMY 22 NEUTRON STARS & PULSARS

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15. Supermassive Black Holes

Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics (ASTR 160) The lecture begins with a question-and-answer session about black holes. Topics include the extent to which we are sure black holes exist in the center of all galaxies, how massive they are, and how we can observe them. The lecture then

From playlist Frontiers/Controversies in Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn

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