Journey to the Center of a Neutron Star

There are a lot of incredible things in space, but neutron stars are some of the most mind-blowing. From liquid plasma oceans on the surface to a possible neutron superfluid in the core — as you go deeper into a neutron star, the physics gets truly wild. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Drew Hart, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, GrowingViolet, Ash, Laura Sanborn, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/N/neutronstar.html https://www.astro.princeton.edu/~burrows/classes/403/neutron.stars.pdf https://phys.org/news/2018-09-simulation-nuclear-pasta-billion-harder.html https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.50.2066 https://compstar.uni-frankfurt.de/outreach/short-articles/the-nuclear-pasta-phase/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys2640 https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.88.065807 https://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6VSR24KnownPulsar/ https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/how-big-is-a-neutron-star https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.89.041002 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-30313-8_2 https://journals.aps.org/prc/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevC.89.055801 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/323937/fulltext/15448.text.html Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20267 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UY_Scuti_size_comparison_to_the_sun.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nucleus_drawing.svg https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/stretching-plasma-kof8dul https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plasma_lamp_touching.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pulsar-highly-magnetized-rotating-neutron-star-gm509664198-85892607 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/atomic-nucleus-gm506797889-45082606 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neutron_star_cross_section-en.svg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11713


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