What Is a Neutron Star? Neutron stars are the extremely dense remnants of supermassive stars that have exploded as supernovae. A star’s evolution and ultimate fate depend in large part on its mass. All supermassive stars — stars with an initial mass greater than approximately eight times that of
. If what remains of the core of the star after the supernova explosion has a mass less than about three times the Sun’s mass, then it forms into aNeutron stars are incredibly dense. They have a mass greater than that of the entire Sun, but are packed into a radius of only about 10 kilometers . A single teaspoon of a neutron star would have a mass of about a trillion kilograms.
This is a near-infrared-light image of the neutron star RX J0806.4-4123 taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble detected an unusual excess of infrared radiation that might be evidence for a disc around the stellar remnant. Or it could be from a wind of charged particles streaming off the neutron star and slamming into gas in the interstellar medium the neutron star is plowing through. Credit: NASA, ESA, and B. Posselt , in visible light, at an isolated neutron star.
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