The life cycle of a neutron star #MakerEducation
Beautiful, educational video from TED-Ed (by David Lunney, directed by JodyPrody).
About once every century, a massive star somewhere in our galaxy runs out of fuel. No longer able to produce sufficient energy to maintain its structure, it collapses under its own gravitational pressure and explodes in a supernova. The death of that star is the birth of a neutron star: one of the densest known objects in the universe. David Lunney explores what, exactly, a neutron star is.
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