thank you for the link.
the picture(s) it shows seem a much better conception of a star collision than the picture shown on apod.
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- Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:59 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Colliding Stars
- Replies: 41
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- Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:47 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Oct 17 APOD: Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Replies: 17
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shape of colliding neutron stars
solid bodies will break up once they pass a certain minimum distance (i think it is called the roche limit for moons and planets, named after the first astronomer to calculate it). the question is whether that would apply to neutron stars. how does neutron star degenerate matter behave? if it acts a...
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:05 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: rendition of colliding neutron stars
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2314
deformation/break-up?
solid bodies will break up once they pass a certain minimum distance (i think it is called the roche limit for moons and planets, named after the first astronomer to calculate it). the question is whether that would apply to neutron stars. how does neutron star degenerate matter behave? if it acts a...
- Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:03 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: rendition of colliding neutron stars
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2314
number of threads
i did look through the "collision of stars" topic it addressed my first question only tangentially. it seemed interested in all stars and the improbabilty of collision rather than the specifics of an actual collision of neutron stars. sorry to have offended the protocol javascriptemoticon(...
- Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:41 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: rendition of colliding neutron stars
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2314
rendition of colliding neutron stars
the picture shown today (monday oct 17, 2005) shows two neutron stars about to collide and generate a short gamma ray burst. if two stars were about to collide, would not their closest points to each other begin to reach out towards each other? are neutron stars so dense that even at close approach ...