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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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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.

The study confirmed that quantized vortices—created by superfluid in a neutron star’s inner crust—could nest in its solid outer crust and create these increases in angular momentum.

“Neutron stars have a crust and a superfluid core,” Burns said in an email. “The motion under the surface builds up stress on the surface, which can eventually cause a starquake.