{"id":122002,"date":"2021-04-26T20:22:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/incredible-cosmic-conditions-bringing-neutron-stars-down-to-earth"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:22:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:22:54","slug":"incredible-cosmic-conditions-bringing-neutron-stars-down-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/incredible-cosmic-conditions-bringing-neutron-stars-down-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Cosmic Conditions: Bringing Neutron Stars Down to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/incredible-cosmic-conditions-bringing-neutron-stars-down-to-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>An international research team led by Michigan State University has helped create cosmic conditions at RIKEN\u2019s heavy-ion accelerator in Japan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imagine taking all of the water in Lake Michigan \u2014 more than a quadrillion gallons \u2014 and squeezing it into a 4-gallon bucket, the kind you\u2019d find at a hardware store.<\/p>\n<p>A quick review of the numbers suggests that this should be impossible: that\u2019s too much stuff and not enough space. But this outlandish density is a defining feature of celestial objects known as neutron stars. These stars are only about 15 miles across, yet they hold more mass than our sun thanks to some extreme physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team led by Michigan State University has helped create cosmic conditions at RIKEN\u2019s heavy-ion accelerator in Japan. Imagine taking all of the water in Lake Michigan \u2014 more than a quadrillion gallons \u2014 and squeezing it into a 4-gallon bucket, the kind you\u2019d find at a hardware store. A quick review of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}