A cosmic ‘speed camera’ just revealed the staggering speed of neutron star jets in a world first
- Written by: James Miller-Jones, Professor, Curtin University
Nuclear explosions on a neutron star feed its jets.
Danielle Futselaar and Nathalie Degenaar, Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam, CC BY-SAHow fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the speed of light, as our team has just revealed in a new study published in Nature.
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