What Are Neutron Stars?

When a dying star is too massive to leave behind a white dwarf and not massive enough to leave behind a black hole, you get a neutron star (sometimes a pulsar). It's a very compact clump of neutrons surrounded by a very strong magnetic field. These things are crazy!!
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Dude I loved this video. It's getting hard to find videos that teach me something new about astrophysics that I didn't know before, but this one definitely did it. I know about neutron stars and a lot of the info you provide, but you provide some extra stuff that I never knew before. Neutron stars can't create magnetic fields if they are only neutrons. Makes sense.

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[macronencer]

Fantastic job on the animations in this one Nick. Well done!

[yanivhekter]

1) What are starquakes on a neutron star?
2) What is a magnetar?
3) How a neutron star's life would end over the time?
4) How bright neutron stars can be?
5) Can quark stars exist?
Awesome video nick,
Nice editing, love your channel.

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This video was gooood. Got the impression you talked a little slower than usual, which was relaxing when pacing along. Some of this stuff is neutron-hard to digest

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[Kombrig_]

I wouldn't call a Neutron Dwarf (ND) a 'star', because it's a CORPS of the star! Just like a WD. But thanks to this video I finally realize of how 'r-process' works -- 3:30. When 2 ND collides -- their crust opens and the inner neutronium immediately decays into lanthenides & other super heavy elements. Thanks, dude!

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[TakoyakiStore]

Ah this solved part of the question I had on your video on Black Holes where I asked how dense matter could get and you asked me to clarify, in which I responded: "what's the smallest particle in which you couldn't collapse anymore?" So neutrons would be the atomic particle that would hold out the longest. Hmmm...

[joelkenrilvaz]

ur the man thanks for the critic, these other guys say that it would weigh equally to a mountain, this analogy makes more sense that the gravity wouldn't be same on earth.