Timeline for What would a neutron star look like up close to the human eye?
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| S Dec 17, 2023 at 17:56 | vote | accept | marmel | ||
| Aug 11, 2023 at 16:07 | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 11, 2023 at 12:47 | answer | added | Khannea | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 12, 2021 at 7:20 | comment | added | PcMan | It will be a very tiny, black dot. Black, because looking at even a 10 billion year old neutron star (~50000K), will contain almost no visible light frequencies but a ton of x-rays that will fry the observer long before the visible light will be observable. | |
| Apr 8, 2021 at 1:02 | vote | accept | marmel | ||
| S Dec 17, 2023 at 17:56 | |||||
| Apr 4, 2021 at 12:52 | comment | added | Pelinore | Dark, very dark, everything would be very dark, you'd have gone blind. | |
| Apr 3, 2021 at 19:47 | answer | added | Stilez | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 7:13 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | @JamesFaix stellar remnants are often very hot, because the process that created them was Quite Energetic, they're very heavy and they have a comparatively small surface area to radiate all that energy away. As an example, the Hubble telescope spotted a stray neutron star. It is hot and bright enough to see with a (big) telescope from a few hundred lightyears away, even without doing any fusion. | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 3:24 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 2:22 | comment | added | El El | Hmm. I don't feel like going into physics, so I just grabbed a short quote from a trustable source: "Which of the following would be brighter, in terms of the amount of energy delivered to your retina: A supernova, seen from as far away as the Sun is from the Earth, or the detonation of a hydrogen bomb pressed against your eyeball?" "Applying the physicist rule of thumb suggests that the supernova is brighter. And indeed, it is ... by nine orders of magnitude." (what-if.xkcd.com/73) Maybe you'd see something... but not for long... | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 1:29 | comment | added | Atog | I think it would not glow, because it would not be doing fusion any more | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 1:27 | history | asked | marmel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |