Stars; Neutron Star Crust Is Stronger than Steel. News. By Robert Goodier published 18 May 2009 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The crust of a neutron star is strong enough to hold up ultra-dense mountains, a new simulation suggests. As the star spins, these bumps could produce ripples in the fabric of space that may be ...

NASA's IXPE space telescope observed a neutron star with a powerful magnetic field in X-rays for the first time, finding polarization and a likely solid crust.

Neutron star shows its crust. A starquake provides the first measurement of a neutron star's crust.Robert Adler By Astronomy Staff | Published: May 12, 2006 | Last updated on May 18, 2023.

Neutron stars' surface gravities are so intense that the largest "mountains" are only a few millimeters tall. And those surfaces are already alien, consisting of a crust of heavy atomic nuclei ...

Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

Both neutron stars and certain moons such as Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus have thin crusts over deep oceans, while Mercury has a thin crust over a large metallic core.

News; Family; Ask Dr. Universe: Earth’s crust couldn’t withstand weight and pressure of a fragment of neutron star Mon., June 23, 2025 A composite image of the supernova 1E0102.2-7219 contains ...

A neutron star with an identity crisis. NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope discovered the 31st magnetar, Swift J1818.01607 or J1818 for short, in March 2020.

Neutron stars are dead relics that have collapsed into very small, dense spheres with tough crusts. Forces welling from within can crack the crusts during events called star quakes, similar to ...