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Neutron Stars /
The astonishing science of neutron stars and the stories of the scientists who study them.Neutron stars are as bewildering as they are elusive. The remnants of exploded stellar giants, they are tiny, merely twenty kilometers across, and incredibly dense. One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. A Collision That Shook the Cosmos
- 2. Discovering Neutron Stars ... and Little Green Men?
- 3. When Stars Go Boom
- 4. Zombies and Starquakes
- 5. Journey to the Center of a Neutron Star
- 6. How Neutron Stars Keep Spoiling Dark Matter Theories
- 7. When Pulsars Have Planets
- 8. Giant Scientific Tools of the Universe
- 9. Fast Radio Bursts, an Unfinished Chapter
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index