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Neutron star

An extremely dense remnant of a massive star's core, packed mostly with neutrons after a supernova.

Neutron stars

A neutron star packs more than the Sun's mass into a city-sized sphere. Some spin rapidly and beam radio waves as pulsars. Mergers of neutron stars produce gravitational waves and heavy elements.

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