Neutron Stars are More Bizarre Than You Think 

"...the crucible the universe uses to forge its most precious elements." What a beautiful analogy.

"Thar be GOLD!!! from them thar neutron stars!" ---Grizzled old desert prospector

For as far back as I can remember I have always had a fascination with Neutron Stars. Great presentation. Thanks

You had me at "Neutron Star"

Bravo Your work is much appreciated by this layman

Magnetars are the real bad boys

Awesome video. Pulsars have always taken a big chunk of my daydreaming time. I love this channel, you deserve so may more subs!

They are endlessly fascinating, and in their own way, beautiful.

Well done and in words/explanations I can understand!

I’m a medical doctor and I still find myself nerding-out to cosmology videos. I guess that little child inside all of us remains well into adulthood

I enjoy the Fascinating content and informative velocity.

Great show - Thanks -Fx at about 8 minutes is very bright and flashing

These stunning entities...truly mind boggling

The writing on this channel keeps getting better imo. Not sure where he gets his ideas from but I’m loving it. This has got to be one of the top sci-fi channels on RU-vid. I love the concept of a “neutron star.” I’d love to see the idea fleshed out in future episodes. The only issue I have is I think he went a little overboard with the density. 1 billion tons in a teaspoon sounds cool but it takes away from what is otherwise a very realistic idea. I think it should be toned down just a bit, maybe 10 tons for a teaspoon would be more believable. I’m pretty sure anything as dense as what is described would collapse into a black hole.

Interesting factoid about neutron stars: The *_speed of sound_* inside a neutron star is approximately equal to c / (3^.5) - that is, the speed of light divided by the square root of 3.

Great video! I like how you used sound with your graphics; I haven't seen many creators make clips as immersive as yours. But I do think that the quick animations would benefit from a 60 fps upload. What you presented definitely gets the point across, but at 30 fps many animations felt jagged to me. Just some observations, I hope the feedback helps!

Much appreciated video. Learned a lot, Thank you.

Bringing that into earths atmosphere would be catastrophic

I'm just burning doin' the neutron dance.

Its a good thing there's lots of room in outer space.

A very nice overview.

Just as crazy is that all of this energy reacting in these humongous explosions and it wouldn’t make any sound

Great documentary thank you

Geat video ❤ Thank you 😊

really great visuals!

Neutron stars are the craziest objects in the universe to me. They are more bizarre and interesting than black holes even. Probably because they are researched (seemingly) and talked about a lot less.

Thanks for this. Was always interested in neutron stars very cool

Fantastic Video I learned and Enjoyed very much. 👏 bravo

Really digging your videos. They are produced very well and you communicate science very well. What is your background?

Wonder how many people think about neutron stars 😊

Nice to see Joel Osteen narrating space facts. Love the Southern drawl! 😁

Brilliant and clear explanations.

Fantastic, informative video.

What’s holding up the teaspoon?

This explains why my chihuahua goes crazy once in a while.

Gee. That's bizarre.

Our gold here on Earth came from two colliding neutron stars.

Would prefer more compacted content instead of repeating information two to four times.

I never thought a Neutron Star was bizarre. I just think that about you quirky scientist

Actually, Pulsars are more accurate/consistent/reliable as a time measurement device than atomic clocks / atomic decay.

I love this video! Beautiful graphics! And the narrator went into much greater detail than I've heard in other videos.

Great video. Please avoid descriptions like 'a teaspoon of its material weighs as much as a mountain'. We have units.

if only humanity could utilize the ultra dense ultra strong material of neutron stars

From what I am understanding here is that the time dilation between the particles in the neutron star and relatively empty space causes the gravity from the the difference in time trying to equalize itself. This may also happen on the atom scale but at barely noticeable gravity effect to us feeble humans. I really think gravity has something to do with non equal passage of time.

The habitable planets are just part of the cosmetics of the universe. Maybe Neutron, Magnetar, Black Holes plus similar, are the ones giving galaxies and the universe it's shape and distribution.

Even cold November rain. 2:06

"nobody really knows" -Universe

Realy I like this video so so much its interestyng

But, a teaspoon of a neutron star would almost instantaneously expand. Either way, it would be deadly.

For anyone wondering what happens after two neutron stars collide a black hole is born

i cannot contemplate the size of space, why are we here? defo not to wage war amongst one another. so confused.

Wonder how they came up with 1 spoonful of starmatter weighs 1 billion tons.

I think its ironic that people complain about God being intrusive and keeping records of everything you do or think yet we now have cameras everywhere and everything is stored on the "cloud" and have dei scores.

I can think pretty bizarrely.

I love watching space matters it's interesting and then narrator makes it interesting

It’s a bit of a catch 22 with stuff as dense as that. It couldn’t exist in our environment. To weigh it you’d need scales made of the same stuff in the same environment so it would just be normal in that context. I need a joint that took a lot of effort to spit that out.

When I watch stuff like this I just think like damn we are just grains of sand in the grand scheme of things so complex

Imagine if we could mine or harness the energy from a neutron star ⭐️

No new information here. Showing of the size comparision is full inacurate. Besides that, it's a nice work.

Their magnetic field is the most f'd up aspect, but they're almost never mentioned in videos introducing neutron stars to people. Magnetars are just batshit crazy, but that's just very young neutron stars. At any rate, long story short, the magnetic fields of neutron stars, and magnetars in particular, is so strong it makes chemistry impossible in a pretty long range. If the sun was a neutron star, then the magnetic field would extend past Mercury before quickly declining. Atoms would no longer arrange their neutrons in clouds, but in columns, disabling all known chemistry from functioning. It's so powerful, it causes spacetime itself to crystallize, which is bonkers, but too complicated to explain here.

Does this teaspoon make me look fat?

It was great to vibrate in that way.

Cool scene 15:26

Humans may eventually understand all of the physics of the Universe, but we will never know WHY?

*Let the Sunshine In...*

'A teaspoon weighs as much as much as mountain.' How do scientists come up with those calculations? 🍻

Apparently, around 98% of the gold on Earth originates from the matter that's created during the relatively rare occurance of two neutron stars colliding with each other.

Neutron stars aren't as heavy as Dimebag Darrell's breakdown on 'Domination' tho.

Normally we can’t see atomic nuclei, but we do when we look at Neutron stars. You’re seeing one big neutron. It’s literally nothing but neutrons and maybe a black hole and radiation but you get the picture

I read Steven Hawking's books with great care but that was a long time ago and they were certainly Best Sellers.

love it

Can anyone confirm whether or not the following ideas about neutron stars are true? These have fascinated me for years. 1) To an imaginary observer on the surface, the only sky visible would be confined to a hole overhead -- an illusion due to the intense gravity bending light from over the star's horizon, making it appear that the observer was at the bottom of narrow bowl. In other words, only light coming straight in from above could make it to the observer, and the horizon would appear to almost close up overhead. 2) If you were to somehow materialize on the surface, your atoms would almost instantaneously be spread out over a large area, disassociate in a flash, and become part of the star. Thanks!

There’s a movie about a neutron star coming into the solar system and ripping the atmosphere off the earth before breaking it apart.

A teaspoon of a neutron star would be a huge explosion without the rest of the mass pushing it together. Would probably destroy the Earth.

It seems like they use too many crude AI videos, to the point where I wonder if the script is also made by AI.

Lesson. Don’t eat this stuff. It’ll rip your butt out.

Being this dense, what would these stars consist of. What is the heaviest element that we know of and how can it be compressed to such extreme density?

I'll take one nuetron star, a cup of dark matter, one cup dark energy, one super massive black hole, add in some gravity waves, the c.m.b ,mix in some warped space- time and, lest we forget,a big bang and cosmic inflation. This horse manure passes for real thermo dynamics in astrophysics. Ain't it nice? Sorry if I've offended the anyone.

But we cannot say a black hole is denser than a neutron star because we don't know what space matter is occupying inside the black hole. Is that correct?

They’re talking ab my left ball

@6:08. I've heard of antipasta but not antignocchi. Probably not the best dish for those watching their weight.

Everybody gangsta till a star turns into a neutron Star !

Some form of life that we cant perceive is purposefully doing all this. I wonder why

What about black holes or quark stars? I know the density of supermassive black holes is potentially low if you include the entire volume contained within the event horizon but at the singularity the density is effectively infinite...

6:14 If we could figure out a way to study the inner working of a neutron star, we just might be able to figure out what a black hole singularity is made of?

At 6:41 you mentioned strange matter as consisting of equal numbers of top and bottom quarks, as well as strange quarks. What you meant to say was up and down quarks, not top and bottom quarks, which are flavors of third generation quarks which do not have an approximate isospin symmetry like the up and down quarks.

There's plenty of space out there

Substance like this would be excilent as artificial gravity

Question is; how did they get a spoon that big?

Okay... But how is it that these massive distant bodies come to find eachother and collide in the vastness of the observed universe? Theres a lot of space... And yet they seem drawn to eachother from distances which seem impossible. What happens to the stuff in the space between them? Is there loads of planetary debris orbiting these massive neutron stars?

Black holes get too much attention sometimes. I love Neutron Stars! Their magnetic energy potential is phenomenal--and to think some of them have planets in orbit!!! Whoa! Any "life" that may develop on a planet that encircles a Neutron star must be extremophiles!

There must be good planets around some neutron stars is just like a sun maybe the planets shall be lighting

Beyond comprehension 🤔

'NeutronX Fans!' Tell me, amongst all the derision and small minds below, I believe this is John Innsprucker's voice, from aeronautics, military, and SpaceX ? Or not?

I'm here because of the NEUTRON DANCE BY THE POINTER SISTERS.

AI generated voices have vastly improved recently. I learned a lot from this video but felt disconnected from the narrator. The flawless delivery was boringly consistent and lacks any emotion or feeling. It’s nice to see a lot more content showing up, but I’m starting to miss conscious narration.

Can pulsars speed up or slow down?

If no more nuclear reactions in neutron stars (or maybe i misunderstood) how does it still 'shine' ?

So Laura Cadonati thinks no one has ever learned anything new about stars and "the elements we're made of" before she came along. Seems a little arrogant.

I just came here to say ofc it’s a 100 billion tons, look at the size of that spoon!