[Renfield]

"...It consists of two massive, highly compact neutron stars, each weighing more than our own Sun but only about 20 km across, orbiting each other every 2.4 hours at speeds of a million kilometres per hour. Separated by a distance of just a million kilometres...."

I'm trying to envision what the magnetic field generated by this system must be like...and having a hard time.

[trashcanbred]

I'm trying to envision what the magnetic field generated by this system must be like...and having a hard time.

From an article on Magnetar's (I thought it was a rather funny pic):

http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/~duncan/magnetar.html

[JustDoItAlways]

I'd love to see some Hubble or Chandra pictures of these two.

I don't like the fact that there are 2 neutron stars spiraling towards each other that are only 2,000 light years away.

When two neutron stars coalesce (in about 1 thousandth of a second), it produces one of mother nature's most powerful explosions.

I imagine it won't happen for hundreds of millions of years? but that could be a bad day (2,000 years later) for Earth.

[TXnMA]

RA, Your thoughts on this one would be much appreciated!

Heads up! to the rest of you...

[RightWingAtheist]

Already posted

[SunkenCiv]

General relativity survives gruelling pulsar test -- Einstein at least 99.95% right
EurekAlert (AAAS) | 13 September 2006 | Staff
Posted on 09/13/2006 1:57:52 PM EDT by PatrickHenry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1700817/posts