[Gunnair]

Wow... a Campbell wandering the forums saying "Baaahhhh..."

Next I'll see Mr. C quoting Marx, Eureka calling everyone who refuses to bow down to his doom and gloom a hopeless denier, Bart wanting to sell us nuke subs and and Zip splellin evryting in his poste wrongd.

[Gunnair]

M95 with Supernova

[PluggyRug]

Sun plasma eruption.

[Gunnair]

Cone and Foxfur nebulas

[Gunnair]

Mars twister.

[Gunnair]

Martian moon of Phobos

[Gunnair]

Jupiter's moon, Io.

[Gunnair]

[ShepherdsDog]

That was preceded by this

[MeganC]

[Gunnair]

A neutron star compared to Manhattan.

[Tyler_1]

Gunnair Gunnair:

Jupiter's moon, Io.

What is that lump?
Is it an electric dome that the Ions built to power their underground city?

cool

[Tyler_1]

I thought all the stars were big.

[raydan]

Space thread...

I thought this was the place to discuss what was under Gun's thick skull.

[DrCaleb]

DonnaWho DonnaWho:

I thought all the stars were big.

Neutron stars are not. They are just a fraction too light for them to completely crush under their own weight and become a black hole.

If an atom's nucleus is a grain of sand on a beach on Earth, it's first electron orbiting the nucleus is a grain of sand on the dark side of the moon. In between is nothing, empty space. What has happend in a neutron star is the gravity is so strong that all the electrons have been torn off all the atoms in the star, and the remaining neutrons are all squished together to form the bulk of the star without all the extra space the atoms normally would have.

The star is extremely small, but still weighs a hundred times what our Sun does. A teaspoon of the matter making up the star would weigh 1000 times more than the Great Pyramid at Giza.

It also makes for some of the coolest things in the Universe, Pulsars, Magentars and Star Quakes.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/scien ... lsars.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starquake_(astrophysics)#Starquake