Neutron stars.

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Dec 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979msngr..19...18z&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 19, p. 18-21

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Masses:X-Ray Binaries, Neutron Stars

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It is a common trick among astronomers who give popular lectures to shock the audience with large numbers. The statement that a matehbox of material from a white dwarf weighs as much as several large locomotives (or elephants if there are influential ecologists present) is always of great effect. But that is all antique by modern comparison. Now, one cubie millimetre of a neutron star (about the size of the head of a pin) weighs one million tons! Dr. Ed Zuiderwijk of the ESO Seientifie Group in Geneva is engaged in a theoretieal and observational study of these incredible objects. There is still much to be learned from them, both for physicists who look for the ultimate properties of matter and for astronomers who wonder how stars end their life.

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