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RX J1856.5−3754 is thought to have formed in a supernova explosion of its companion star about one million years ago and is moving across the sky at 108 km/s. It was discovered in 1992, and observations in 1996 confirmed that it is a neutron star, the closest to Earth discovered to date. [3]
Timeline of neutron stars, pulsars, supernovae, and white dwarfs. Note that this list is mainly about the development of knowledge, but also about some supernovae taking place. For a separate list of the latter, see the article List of supernovae. All dates refer to when the supernova was observed on Earth or would have been observed on Earth ...
A neutron star is the ultra-compact remnant of a massive star which exploded as a supernova. Neutron stars have a mass bigger than the Sun , yet are only a few kilometers across. These extremely dense objects rotate on their axes , producing focused electromagnetic waves which sweep around the sky and briefly point toward Earth in a lighthouse ...
A neutron star is so dense that one teaspoon (5 milliliters) of its material would have a mass over 5.5 × 10 12 kg, about 900 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza. [b] The entire mass of the Earth at neutron star density would fit into a sphere 305 m in diameter, about the size of the Arecibo Telescope.
Zooming to RX J1856.5−3754 which is one of the Magnificent Seven and, at a distance of about 400 light-years, the closest-known neutron star. Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of supergiant stars. [1] They are created as a result of supernovas and gravitational collapse, [2] and are the second-smallest and densest class of stellar objects ...
The eccentricity of Earth's orbit will reach a minimum, 0.00236 (it is now 0.01671). [156] [157] 66,270 AD Sirius becomes the South Star at 1.6° of the south celestial pole, due to the combination of precession and its own proper motion. [158] 67,173 AD The planets Mercury and Venus will both cross the ecliptic at the same time. July 26, 69,163 AD
The first radio pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell and her adviser, Antony Hewish using the Interplanetary Scintillation Array. [4] Franco Pacini and Thomas Gold quickly put forth the idea that pulsars are highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, which form as a result of a supernova at the end of the life of stars more massive than about 10 times the mass of the Sun (M ☉).
The 4U 1820-30 system, consisting of a neutron star and a white dwarf, compared to the Earth and the Sun (bottom). The neutron star is tied with PSR J1748−2446ad as the fastest rotating pulsar known, both making 716 revolutions per second. NGC 6624 is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius.