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Mar 21, 2024

Thermonuclear flames: Astrophysicists use supercomputer to explore exotic stellar phenomena

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Understanding how a thermonuclear flame spreads across the surface of a neutron star—and what that spreading can tell us about the relationship between the neutron star’s mass and its radius—can also reveal a lot about the star’s composition.

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