An Essay On A Neutron Star

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There are trillions of stars in the universe of many types. From red giants to white dwarfs, they range in size, temperature, and density. One particular type is a neutron star. They have many interesting properties, from extreme density, magnetism, and gravity, to scorching heat that makes our own sun seem like a warm, tropical beach. The environment on a neutron star is incomprehensibly brutal.
Neutron stars are the leftovers of stars with a mass of four to eight times that of our own sun. A neutron star can be formed when the star goes supernova. A star goes super nova when the star runs out of hydrogen to fuse into helium. When all of the hydrogen is used up, the star starts to fuse helium, and it keeps fusing heavier and heavier elements, until it reaches iron. Once the star tries to fuse iron, the star has effectively died, because fusing iron requires more energy to start the reaction than it will release. As the star fuses iron, it is absorbing energy, and gravity starts to compress the star because the star is no longer able to fight gravity because the fusion in the star has stopped. As soon as the star has been compressed enough, it will restart fusion, releasing incredible amounts of energy, causing a supernova. When a star goes supernova, it blows the outer layers of material off into space leaving only the core. If the star was large enough, only the core will remain. Because the core is unable to produce energy through nuclear fusion, gravity starts to press the core in on itself. As the star gets denser and denser, this process speeds up. Once there is no more room, this process stops
One of the many extremes on a neutron star is the density. Neutron stars are incredibly small, only twelve and a half miles in diame...

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Although there are trillions of stars in the universe, neutron stars are some of the most interesting. From extreme mass, to small size, they are home to some of the most extreme environments you can find. They can create new celestial bodies as easily as they can destroy them. They have many forms, lone objects, binary systems, pulsars, and magnetars, but they all have similar properties. They all have extreme gravity, rotation speed, magnetic fields, and density. All of these make neutron stars unique in a universe of stars.

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