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thank you for the link.

the picture(s) it shows seem a much better conception of a star collision than the picture shown on apod.

solid bodies will break up once they pass a certain minimum distance (i think it is called the roche limit for moons and planets, named after the first astronomer to calculate it). the question is whether that would apply to neutron stars. how does neutron star degenerate matter behave? if it acts a...

solid bodies will break up once they pass a certain minimum distance (i think it is called the roche limit for moons and planets, named after the first astronomer to calculate it). the question is whether that would apply to neutron stars. how does neutron star degenerate matter behave? if it acts a...

i did look through the "collision of stars" topic it addressed my first question only tangentially. it seemed interested in all stars and the improbabilty of collision rather than the specifics of an actual collision of neutron stars. sorry to have offended the protocol javascriptemoticon(...

the picture shown today (monday oct 17, 2005) shows two neutron stars about to collide and generate a short gamma ray burst. if two stars were about to collide, would not their closest points to each other begin to reach out towards each other? are neutron stars so dense that even at close approach ...