45: Biggest Neutron Star Ever!
Oct 07, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 45
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Episode description
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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.
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Things we talked about in this episode:
NASA’s site on neutron stars, pulsars and magnetars
Video on white dwarf stars by Kurzgesagt
The 100m Greenbank Radio Observatory
Jocelyn Bell Burnell and LGM-1
Neutron star limit, known as the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit
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