shallowblue OP t1_isv65eo wrote on October 18, 2022 at 10:51 PM

Some more wild facts about it:

the star has twice the mass of the sun but is only 32km across
at its equator, the surface is moving at ~24% of lightspeed (over 70,000 km/sec)

frictorious t1_isvhxcn wrote on October 19, 2022 at 12:19 AM

That's so wild

heckdditor t1_isw1r5q wrote on October 19, 2022 at 2:48 AM

wild is my turtle walking by my yard. this is fucking nuts.

MuchAndMore t1_isy2e3k wrote on October 19, 2022 at 3:20 PM

Nuts are the almonds I'm eating with lunch. This is just crazy.

indyjumper t1_isykky1 wrote on October 19, 2022 at 5:19 PM

Crazy is heath ledger’s joker. This is ludicrous

[deleted] t1_isylx1a wrote on October 19, 2022 at 5:28 PM

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Qwez81 t1_isyqp13 wrote on October 19, 2022 at 5:59 PM

Insane is just doing the same thing and expecting different results. This is just absurd.

Omgporkchop t1_itq4n09 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 2:19 PM

Insane is just a posse of clowns. This is bizarre!

Tressemy t1_isvxadl wrote on October 19, 2022 at 2:13 AM

How was the diameter measured? I would assume it is a LONG ways away, and that seems like a small distance to measure from here.

THeShinyHObbiest t1_iswb9vf wrote on October 19, 2022 at 4:11 AM

I believe you can estimate the size of neutron stars very accurately by their power output.

ghidfg t1_isvlcyp wrote on October 19, 2022 at 12:44 AM

woah

gravi-tea t1_isv6uoz wrote on October 18, 2022 at 10:56 PM

That's absolutely absurd.

bstowers t1_isvc4tf wrote on October 18, 2022 at 11:35 PM

You should read Dragon's Egg.

blakerabbit t1_it1gs0a wrote on October 20, 2022 at 6:39 AM

But that only rotated about 5 times a second

Borugak t1_isv6bbz wrote on October 18, 2022 at 10:52 PM

Space is terrifyingly beautiful.

commdesart t1_isvamlh wrote on October 18, 2022 at 11:24 PM

I went to school with a kid that had ADHD that could do that.

TheDrunkyBrewster t1_isww4x6 wrote on October 19, 2022 at 8:31 AM

Classic, Kyle.

frowningpurplesun t1_isvlb1w wrote on October 19, 2022 at 12:44 AM

how loud is it?

Turtlehead88 t1_isvvvyh wrote on October 19, 2022 at 2:02 AM

Not quite as loud as you passing a kidney stone.

frowningpurplesun t1_isvw38l wrote on October 19, 2022 at 2:04 AM

not nearly as bright neither

AlpineJ0e t1_isv97qv wrote on October 18, 2022 at 11:13 PM

That's too fast.

TheDrunkyBrewster t1_isww36e wrote on October 19, 2022 at 8:31 AM

Right?! Like, slow down star. What's your rush?

SuperSimpleSam t1_isydlop wrote on October 19, 2022 at 4:34 PM

It tucked in too much.

FreneticPlatypus t1_isv7b8k wrote on October 18, 2022 at 10:59 PM

And it feels like days fly by here on Earth.

HucklecatDontCare t1_isvvw8w wrote on October 19, 2022 at 2:02 AM

The universe has some really weird shit in it. its hard to even comprehend most of it. And there might be even weirder shit that we havent even seen like Quark Stars which are basically even more compressed Neutron Stars.

SomeROCDude21 t1_isv7yf2 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 11:04 PM

I first saw this in Buffalo, everything makes sense now!

BobBelcher2021 t1_iswm2vm wrote on October 19, 2022 at 6:09 AM

Makes sense, with the area code there

-PunsWithScissors- t1_isvvrbg wrote on October 19, 2022 at 2:01 AM

That’s crazy, a real life test bed for lorentz contractions (as they relate to spinning objects). Not to mention other strange gravitational anomalies from an object with such mass spinning at that speed.

rangeo t1_isvcpvx wrote on October 18, 2022 at 11:39 PM

We are so tiny and slow ....but we try

Frosty_404 t1_isvp1wy wrote on October 19, 2022 at 1:12 AM

Compared to the size of the universe even light is slow.

AnthillOmbudsman t1_isw998l wrote on October 19, 2022 at 3:51 AM

You could make some crazy designs drawing on that star with a marker while it rotates under the pen.

[deleted] t1_isysg40 wrote on October 19, 2022 at 6:10 PM