How to Use neutron star in a Sentence

neutron star

noun
  • The largest stars will die and give way to neutron stars and black holes.
    Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • How could a neutron star be even smaller?
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Dec. 2025
  • What is a neutron star, or pulsar?
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • That's very slow; some neutron stars can spin many times per second.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • What remains is a dense neutron star with a little more mass than our sun.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 June 2021
  • Black holes and neutron stars form when large stars run out of fuel and collapse.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The remnant of this outburst is a neutron star, which is small but very dense.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 June 2020
  • That's about 10 times greater than the pressure seen at the heart of a neutron star.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
  • At that time, the neutron star released a massive burst of X-rays.
    Fox News, 19 June 2020
  • Astronomers are geeked about seeing for the first time two neutron stars collide.
    Doug Criss, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, a black hole swallowed a neutron star.
    Wilson Wong, NBC News, 29 June 2021
  • Since then, Vogt's team has published more findings about the neutron star.
    Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com, 31 May 2018
  • But those findings have yet to be linked to a white dwarf, a neutron star, or another source.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The point at the center could be the neutron star remnant of the exploded star.
    Giuseppina Fabbiano, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2024
  • Anything below three times the mass of our sun is considered a neutron star.
    Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
  • As the stellar dust settles, the remains include a neutron star or a black hole.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 May 2019
  • They are thought to form when red giant or red supergiant star collides with a neutron star.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2021
  • And more information about a rare neutron star has emerged as a result.
    Doris Elin Salazar, Space.com, 31 May 2018
  • These are the conditions that take a neutron star merger and create a blitzar.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • There's little doubt that the smaller object is either a neutron star or a black hole.
    Jordan Nutting, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2020
  • That leaves us with a neutron star as the most likely explanation.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022
  • What neutron star is spinning slowly enough to beam at Earth for three seconds at a time?
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • This implied to the team that one or two small neutron stars might have merged to produce a kilonova.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Astronomers weren’t quite sure where short gamma ray bursts came from, but figured that a crash of neutron stars was a good bet.
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
  • That means neutron star magnetic fields are trillions of times stronger than Earth’s.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
  • Among these new discoveries is a neutron star–black hole merger.
    Chad Hanna, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025
  • According to this estimate,the object could be a black hole or a neutron star.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 June 2022
  • The burst could also have been the result of a neutron star being torn apart by its companion black hole.
    Eleonora Troja, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Click through online images of the universe to spot events like a black hole or neutron star collision.
    Scistarter Team, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The powerful bursts could be linked to the orbital motion of a massive star, a neutron star or a black hole.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 June 2020

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