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The Magnetar
Neutron stars are city-size stellar objects with a mass about 1.4 times that of the sun. They are born from the collapse of a large star and are so dense that a teaspoon full would weigh over a billion tons. That carries with it a lot of magnetism. How much? Well the earth carries 1 gauss of magnetism, our sun has a few hundred. A neutron star carries a whopping trillion-gauss magnetic field. You read that right.....trillion, with a t.
The magnetar is a neutron star with a magnetic field up to 1 quadrillion-gauss. That's 1000 trillion times more magnetic than the field you're sitting in right now. If a magnetar was to suddenly replace the sun right now, the magnetism would be so powerful it atomize you almost instantly.
Sauce: https://www.space.com/22180-neutron-stars.html
https://www.space.com/30263-paul-sutter-on-why-magnetars-are-scary.html
Guillermooo
If light could have gravity affecting it, can it also pulled/restricted by an object with strong enough magnetism?
NineColonels100
That's one strong magnet.
Voric13
So is she single?
TotallyNotYourCat
x100 Gravity training here we come!
ProxyPlayerHD
neutron stars are funny. ~3 times the weight of our sun in a ball as small as a city ( ~20km ⌀ )
ICommentOnYourPost
Magnetars are cool and all but a quark star is so much cooler, completely compromised of strange quark matter.
Flyndaran
Magnetars have been proven to exist. Quark stars haven't so far and I think would be very hard to prove from observable data anyway.
OmnibusLatinName
When people ask me if something is magnetic, I always say "Depends on the strength of the field." ;)
YouExpectedAUsernameButItWasMeDio
Magnetar sounds like the name of a pokemon
Munchman347
'How does it work?'...
lospaturno
No, it will atomize you after 8 minutes. Physics.
noiritus
I had exactly the same picture and topic for a paperwork I did back in my school days.
Secular
Well, not instantly. But in roughly 8 min it would seriously suck very, very briefly.
itsameeeee
If we had spaceships, those would propably be quite scary
MoReRoo
And you can use them to jump about 3x farther than you normally can! Wait...
dalikar
I live in a C4 one of these. Makes my pew pew very stronk. Heh heh.
iKev7
Fun fact: all pulsars are neutron stars, but not all neutron stars are pulsars.
antichrist123
Pretty fucking obvious. All ducklings are ducks, but not all ducks are ducklings!
iKev7
Well did you know that some people don’t know these things, and like to learn, instead of being assholes?
piack
Same with these bad boys
SLUGGOMATIC
I always upvote exotic stars.
Eunjae
Silly question: Could a magnetar pull our masses towards it, simply because its magnetism is so strong?
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Its extreme gravity of a 100 billion g or more would pull you in & rip you to pieces if you got too close. It's electromagnetic radiation...
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
(mostly gamma & X-rays), on the other hand, would penetrate your body and blast your molecules apart into single atoms.
ShaneBrown13
Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
I'm sure you've read the sci-fi novel Dragon's Egg? If not, you absolutely should. Best hard sci-fi out there. Life on a neutron star.
Janusha
There are some who say neutron stars are bad places to be at.
notacobra
Who the fuck measures astronomical magnetic fields in Guass and not tesla!? That'd be like measuring light years in milimetres.
itsclemfandangocanyouhearme
https://imgur.com/rYAFDz3
NuNuDagobah
Fun fact, there was a magnetar literally across half the milky way which developed a sudden crack in its crust. This event gave off so much
NuNuDagobah
Radiation that it completely blinded sattelites, some of which were still on earth in their peotective housings.
NuNuDagobah
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR_1806-20
trixianmay
Janusha
Essentially they are packed as tightly as neutrons can be packed individually... Any more disruption and they vanish into a black hole.
antichrist123
Matter can't vanish, DUDE.
nottherapist
@OP Neat, but your last paragraph is wrong according to your sources. "Get too close to one (say, within 1,000 kilometers, or about 600 1/2
nottherapist
2/2 miles), and the magnetic fields are strong enough to upset not just your bioelectricity...but your very molecular structure,"Sutter said
xaenex1
Should have included this one. My bad https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/271154/science_documentary_just_said_a_magnetar_would/
davedoesnotgetit
The universe is made of neutrons, protons, electrons and unique to earth: morons.
yosoyunosojustsoyouknowso
RYG420
*laughs off into the sunset*
LtKifKroker
I'm pretty sure morons exist in alien civilizations, we just haven't seen their memes yet
fitchy0812
Ya forgot positrons and anti protons, ya moron
chopper35
36roentgen
Just met one that claimed Reddit is better than Imgur just because she got insulted at a reddit joke I made.
natethegreat404
expectantbamboo
Techpriest93
d0o0o0d
We have no proof morons are unique to earth, only an absence of evidence that they can be found elsewhere.
Fu3G0
mycatsanarsehole
Im sure if there is lige outside earth then there are also moron out there too. :)
Shovi
There is not if.
mycatsanarsehole
Life*
PhoenixPixel
Not to burst your bubble..... there are other things like gluons and quarks.
davedoesnotgetit
I know, but I only have 140 characters to be funny.
Flyndaran
And whatever the hell dark matter is.
aselleus
Don't forget about the gluon-intolerant
LurkerOfDarkness
Protons and neutrons are made of, amongst others, quarks and gluons.
stilltoobigg
Is it considered nature when it's in or about space? Is nature an earth specific term or nah? Just curious
Daeyelle
I assumed nature was anything biologically created/maintained.
jacob747
Nature is anything and everything down to the last atom of your existence.
melo3rd
Never thought about it before. Space feels too high tech for nature
The5lacker
It only feels high tech because we need tech to get there. We are in space right now.
IdleNarrator
"Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe". Yeah, 'nature' is what suites us at the time.
BellCranel
Suite as, bro
TheDivineUsersub
Nature is essentially the process of the natural order (which includes all natural phenomenon, including the cosmos)
AzgarOgly
Considering all the Universe resides within the crystal Celestial (hemi)sphere covering the Earth, your question makes not much sense.
Tissueaccount
Go away Facebook nobody wants you here
GalacticSpaceLemon
What?
andre21
AzgarOgly
You see the glass thing behind him and shimmering lights? That's pretty much like Celestial sphere looks like with stars. Only larger.
steorotypicalFatGuy
I found the flat earther......
AzgarOgly
Your sense of humor needs an update to be installed.
IAlwaysUpvoteSunsets
WE NEED TO BUILD A WALL TO KEEP THE MAGNETARS OUT!!!
GorillaPowers
Like a sort of barrier, maybe?
Zhanfir
Since global warning doesn't exist I'm sure this doesn't either haha
VirtusTenebrae
Interesting science fact, magnetic fields can and will pass through literally all materials.
girthyafterbirth
Hopefully pronounced ‘magneeters!’
brownsugga
And make Mexico pay for it!!@
otravezfrijoles
We are not paying for that shit!
TheBlackKnightRider
Thats the best part, making the fuckin mexicans pay for it. gotta tax their drugs somehow.
SrDave
Yeah it kinda sucks for the trash people that buy them in the first place.