A 15 question quiz about neutron stars:
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The quiz above includes the following questions:
- Neutron stars are ...
- What is the mass of a star that will become a neutron star when it collapses?
- What is the typical mass of a neutron star?
- Due to conservation of angular momentum, a neutron star’s rotation rate will ...
- Typically neutron stars can rotate at up to ...
- How many neutron stars are thought to be in the Milky Way?
- We can estimate the number of neutron stars by looking at stars that have ...
- Neutron stars are so dense that they have a minimum escape velocity (how fast you need to travel to lift off the surface of an astronomical object) equivalent to ...
- Neutron stars are difficult to find because they are very small. They usually have a diameter of ...
- Over time neutron stars’ rotation slows down (called ‘spin down’). The rate of this slow down is ...
- What percentage of known neutron stars are part of a binary system?
- The closest know neutron star is ...
- The nearest neutron star is part of a close group of neutron stars called ...
- When was the idea of the existence of neutron stars first proposed?
- Antony Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974 for his role in the discovery of pulsars, but who made the discovery with him?