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What a blast

What a blast

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What a blast

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What a blast

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Washington: Science News/Society for Science and the Public

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Science news (Washington), 2000-12, Vol.158 (24), p.376-376

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English

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Washington: Science News/Society for Science and the Public

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A collapsed star with a helium-rich star in orbit around it can set off a series of explosions, each lasting about 10 seconds and releasing as much energy as the sun does in an entire year. Such eruptions can happen several times a day on the surface of a neutron star, and astronomers have now glimpsed a much rarer, longer-lived neutron-star explos...

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What a blast

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_197559740

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_197559740

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ISSN

0036-8423

E-ISSN

1943-0930

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