neutron star

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Noun

neutron star (plural neutron stars)

1. (astronomy) A degenerate star that has been so collapsed by gravity that its electrons and protons have been merged into neutrons by the intense pressure. The solid mass of neutrons is sometimes called neutronium.

Hyponyms

• magnetar
• pulsar

Derived terms

• proto-neutron star
• protoneutron star

Translations

star composed of neutrons

• Amharic: የኒውትሮን ኮከብ (yäniwtəron kokäb)
• Arabic: نَجْم نْيُوتْرُونِيّ (najm nyūtrūniyy)
• Armenian: նեյտրոնային աստղ (neytronayin astġ)
• Azerbaijani: neytron ulduzu
• Bulgarian: неутро́нна звезда́ f (neutrónna zvezdá)
• Catalan: estel de neutrons m, estrella de neutrons f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中子星 (zh) (zhōngzǐxīng)

• Czech: neutronová hvězda f
• Dutch: neutronenster (nl) c
• Esperanto: neŭtrona stelo
• Finnish: neutronitähti (fi)
• French: étoile à neutrons (fr) f
• Georgian: ნეიტრონული ვარსკვლავი (neiṭronuli varsḳvlavi)
• German: Neutronenstern (de) m
• Greek: αστέρας νετρονίων (el) n (astéras netroníon)
• Icelandic: nifteindastjarna f
• Indonesian: bintang neutron
• Interlingua: stella de neutrones
• Irish: neodrónréalta f
• Italian: stella neutronica f
• Japanese: 中性子星 (ja) (chūseishi-sei)
• Kazakh: нейтрондық жұлдыз (neitrondyq jūldyz)
• Korean: 중성자별 (jungseongjabyeol)
• Kyrgyz: нейтрон жылдызы (neytron jıldızı)
• Latvian: neitronu zvaigzne f
• Lithuanian: neutroninė žvaigždė f
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: nøytronstjerne m or f

  Norwegian Nynorsk: nøytronstjerne f, nøytronstjerna f

• Persian: ستاره نوترونی (fa)
• Polish: gwiazda neutronowa f
• Portuguese: estrela de nêutrons, estrela de neutrões f
• Punjabi: ਨਿਉਟ੍ਰੋਨ ਤਾਰਾ m (niuṭron tārā)
• Romanian: stea neutronică (ro) f
• Russian: нейтро́нная звезда́ (ru) f (nejtrónnaja zvezdá)
• Serbo-Croatian: neutronska zvijezda, neutronska zvezda
• Slovak: neutrónová hviezda f
• Slovene: nevtronska zvezda f
• Spanish: estrella de neutrones f
• Swedish: neutronstjärna (sv)
• Tagalog: bituin ng awansik
• Tajik: ситораи нейтронй (sitora-yi neytrony)
• Turkish: nötron yıldızı, ılıncık yıldızı
• Ukrainian: нейтронна зоря f (nejtronna zorja)
• Uzbek: neytron yulduzi
• Vietnamese: sao neutron
• Welsh: seren niwtron f

See also

• black hole
• collapsar
• quasar