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Gunnair @ Sat Mar 17, 2012 8:23 pm
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 @ Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:04 pm
M95 with Supernova
PluggyRug @ Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:17 pm
Sun plasma eruption.
Gunnair @ Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:37 pm
Cone and Foxfur nebulas
Gunnair @ Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:38 pm
Mars twister.
Gunnair @ Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:45 pm
Martian moon of Phobos
Gunnair @ Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:49 pm
Jupiter's moon, Io.
Gunnair @ Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:48 pm
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:14 pm
That was preceded by this
MeganC @ Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:58 pm
Gunnair @ Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:10 am
A neutron star compared to Manhattan.
Tyler_1 @ Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:21 am
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
![[B-o]](./images/smilies/drinkup.gif "Drink up")
Tyler_1 @ Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:23 am
I thought all the stars were big. 
raydan @ Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:52 am
Space thread...
I thought this was the place to discuss what was under Gun's thick skull. 
DrCaleb @ Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:57 am
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
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