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neutron stars can be roughly devided into diffrent layers, like a planet. It hs a crust, atmoshpere and likely fluid core. Like planets.
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| Atmosphere |
- About 10 cm thick
- Probbibly consists of ordany atoms, considering the core is of ordinaty iron.
- Elsewise not much else I could gather
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| Crust |
Likely a layer of iron at the top, sqeezed int a crystall lattice. As we go furter dow, we get neucli that are closer togeather, with more and more neutrons, likely because the pressure is causing elecrons and protons to react and form neutrons. Eventually the pressure gets so high that attoms fuse in shapes resembling gniocchi, and lasania as you get further down. this is reffered to as neucliar pasta. |
| Core |
Many "theorys" exist on what the core matter migt be, including, but not limeted too quark-gluon plazma such as what the early universe was, starnge matter* or just more neutrons. The final one is defenetly the one supported by my scources (on the scources page) |
*thare are three diffrent pairs of quarks:
- - Up and Down Quarks
- - The most common type of quark, these are the quarks that make up protons and neutrons. Mainly exist in pairs of 3.
- - Charm and Strange
- - Strange quarks are a type of quark found in strainge matter, a possible canadate for what makes up the core of a neutron star. charm quarks dont seem to do too much
- - Top and Bottem
- - I currently know of no time this set of quarks exists apart form high-speed proton colisions in LHC (large hadon colidor) in Europe, and on papor in partical, quantom, and other simmilar branches pf pysics
as well as all of ther corrisponding antiquarks (antimatter particals)
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How a Neutron Star Forms
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