Published 14:25 IST, January 18th 2021
NASA posts image of neutron star, shares mind-blowing fact about it
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has once again left the internet intrigued with its latest post about a Neutron star.
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National Aeronautics and ministration (NASA) has once again left internet intrigued with its latest post about a Neutron star. Sharing photograph of superva remnant RCW 103, ncy pointed out at neutron star located at its heart. Astromers define a neutron star as collapsed core of a massive supergiant star after it undergoes a superva explosion.
mesmerising photograph captures remnants of RCW 103 superva explosion, which lies 10,000 light-years away from constellation rma. At centre of picture, re is a bright shining spot, which NASA describes as Neutron star or star which h exploded. ncy n furr revealed that mass of one cube matter of neutron star would roughly be equal to entire base of mount Everest.
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'Densly packed matter'
“Matter in a neutron star is packed toger so tightly that a sugar-cube-sized amount of neutron star material would weigh more than 1 billion tons — roughly weight of Mount Everest!,” NASA’s Chandra Ray observatory which shared picture described.
Since shared, post has left people flabbergasted and has garnered over 20,000 likes. In dendum, netizens have flocked to post with various questions and comments. "Fascinating dear chandra", commented a user. "how far it is from our Earth?" questioned ar. Meanwhile, ar joked, "And we were worried about extra pounds from holidays", while ar said, "Cool".
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While Supervas or de stars often make helines, re are millions of young stars glinting across universe too. Just yesterday, NASA shared an im of "5 million years young and dazzling star cluster" on its official Instagram account. US ncy shared im with a caption stating that colour of a star is directly linked to its surface temperature. NASA said that hotter star, shorter wavelength of light it will emit. " hottest of stars are blue or blue-white and cooler ones are red or red-brown," it ded.
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14:25 IST, January 18th 2021