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    What do neutron stars look like? Previously these city-sized stars were too small and too far away to resolve. Recently, however, the first maps of the locations and sizes of hotspots on a neutron star's surface have been made by carefully modeling how the rapid spin makes the star's X-ray brightness rise and fall. Based on a leading model, an illustrative map of pulsar J0030+0451's hotspots is pictured, with the rest of the star's surface filled in with a false patchy blue. J0030 spins once eve

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    What do neutron stars look like? Previously these city-sized stars were too small and too far away to resolve. Recently, however, the first maps of the locations and sizes of hotspots on a neutron star's surface have been made by carefully modeling how the rapid spin makes the star's X-ray brightness rise and fall. Based on a leading model, an illustrative map of pulsar J0030+0451's hotspots is pictured, with the rest of the star's surface filled in with a false patchy blue. J0030 spins once eve

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    A Hotspot Map of Neutron Star

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    What do neutron stars look like? Previously these city-sized stars were too small and too far away to resolve. Recently, however, the first maps of the locations and sizes of hotspots on a neutron star's surface have been made by carefully modeling how the rapid spin makes the star's X-ray brightness rise and fall. Based on a leading model, an illustrative map of pulsar J0030+0451's hotspots is pictured, with the rest of the star's surface filled in with a false patchy blue. J0030 spins once eve

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    18/12/2019 Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Astronomy Picture of the Day


    Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along
    with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

    2019 December 18

    A Hotspot Map of Neutron Star J0030's Surface


    Image Credit: NASA, NICER, GSFC's CI Lab

    Explanation: What do neutron stars look like? Previously these city-sized stars were too small and too far
    away to resolve. Recently, however, the first maps of the locations and sizes of hotspots on a neutron star's
    surface have been made by carefully modeling how the rapid spin makes the star's X-ray brightness rise and
    fall. Based on a leading model, an illustrative map of pulsar J0030+0451's hotspots is pictured, with the rest
    of the star's surface filled in with a false patchy blue. J0030 spins once every 0.0049 seconds and is located
    about 1000 light years away. The map was computed from data taken by NASA's Neutron star Interior
    Composition ExploreR (NICER) X-ray telescope attached to the International Space Station. The computed
    locations of these hotspots is surprising and not well understood. Because the gravitational lensing effect of
    neutron stars is so strong, J0300 displays more than half of its surface toward the Earth. Studying the
    appearance of pulsars like J0030 allows accurate estimates of the neutron star's mass, radius, and the internal
    physics that keeps the star from imploding into a black hole.

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