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Ejection From Fastest Known Revolving Neutron Star
nachoworld writes: "In a similar vein to the neutron star article posted earlier today, this more interesting NS has emitted a 3-hour long (1000x longer than normal) explosion by fusing the mass of its mostly helium neighbor. In that pluto-sized ejection, the NS emitted enough energy to keep the sun burning for 20 years. On a side note, this is the one and the same neutron star of 4U 1820-30, which is the fastest spining binary known to man (11-minute cycles)."
Hmm... one couple of celestial bodies twirling around each other at stellar speeds causing a build-up of material which ends in a massive eruption/explosion lasting for three whole hours.
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:) (why else are they making bungie sex-seats which are supposed to simulate sex in a weightless environment?)
Go back and read that paragraph, then tell me that you don't see the freudian image painted in that. Damned, it's more blatantly obvious than Adam and Eve. Maybe the 3 hour "bang" disproves the "big-bang" theory
Conclusion: Sex while suspended in weightless space environment can cause massive build-up and eruption
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I went to the article and the first thing I see is
"an artists rendering of a neutron star".
I can imagine when he was drawing that, an astronomer goes up to him and says "oooh, I like the yellows, but can you cut down on the greens a bit, however those black flecks are wonderful".
Has the artist seen one? Has the astronomer seen one with visible light? No, and No.
Artists impression, tish.
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all these space stories depress me. I mean, sure, we just noticed something amazing happening in the sky. this is, literally, old news. These events occured hundreds of thousands of years ago and the light is just now getting here. we'll never be able to see what's happening realtime until we get close enough, and even then it's not quite realtime, but slightly lagged. oh well, i won't get anal about it, but it's old news, but i still care.
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I was about to say the same thing...
There was almost a point to the post if you realize that not everyone is familiar with the basics of astronomy.
The submission has one detail wrong - the neutron star is orbiting the other star in only 11 minutes. The situation is the same as the Earth going around the sun (the definition of a year) in only 11 minutes.
Neutron stars actually spin much faster than that. The neutron star B1937+21, discovered in 1982 rotates in 1.6 milliseconds (625 full spins per second). Rapidly spinning neutron stars are also called pulsars, because of the radio pulses they emit. One of the first pulsars discovered was the neutron star in the middle of the Crab Nebula, which rotates 33 times per second.
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Man, the fastest ejection from my stars I could manage was about five minutes.
You guys are high performance!
That's right buddy, it's me again, I came back just to re-iterate: You are a FUCKING IDIOT. FUCKING.
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Hey, at least it's smaller than Uranus.
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Well, it might be a better way than we do it here...
is how big that Burrito must have been?!
actually, I don't find it very funny at all.
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hmmm... so if we managed to blow up pluto...
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You know, something that big spinning that fast gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "spin cycle".
Who cares?
Or is this now Slashdot - news for Astrophysicists?
Um, you *do* have the option of excluding "space" from your list of categories to be displayed. hit the "preferences" link on the left of your screen.
And as the astrophyics stories get a fair number of on-topic posts once they've been up for a while, I'd say that a significant segment of the slashdot readership is interested in them.
Here is a page with a tutorial on pulsars. You can listen to them, too!
This isn't just a "biggest explosion, gee whiz" story. As the article notes, very little is known about the interior of neutron stars, and this explosion probes deeper inside. As explained on this nifty page about neutron stars, there could even be all kinds of exotic stuff inside them, like strange-quark matter.
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Pluto-sized ejection? Sounds rough... that star might want to go have a doctor check that out...
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Cute.
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Which is pretty impressive, I might add. The story is interesting, but there's not much to comment on the citius, altius, fortius of stars. Most people have just been making lame jokes, and I think anything else deserves applause.
Here's an on-topic question, I'm not much of a phsyicist so I will need some clarification on this subject, if the explosion is 1000x longer, is it 1000x more powerful, I mean is the range at which it affects other heavenly bodies extended, or it is the same range, just a much longer exposure?
Consider: Even if the telescope was on the moon, it takes only about 4 seconds for the signal to reach here from the moon. That cuts the hundred-thousand years down by not a lot.
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Would that be a Beowulf Shaeffer cluster? :-)
I'm currently sitting in an office in Hong Kong gazing over the rain-soaked harbour, and nursing a huge hangover from a night of over-excess.
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I just read this article and have realised the insignificance of my being... it's too much!!
Please can you warn other readers like myself before trying to blow our minds early on Sunday Mornings. Otherwise many of us will lose our minds
Getting on topic: I wish I had listened much more in those physics classes I failed!
Imagine if we had a Beowulf cluster of those...er...nevermind.
I'm afraid we are out of English or Oregon cheddar, sir.
Of course we have double creme brie, we are a cheese shop, sir.
Oh sorry, the cat eated it, sir.
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