{"id":194572,"date":"2024-08-15T01:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T06:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/mirror-nuclei-help-connect-nuclear-theory-and-neutron-stars"},"modified":"2024-08-15T01:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T06:24:03","slug":"mirror-nuclei-help-connect-nuclear-theory-and-neutron-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/mirror-nuclei-help-connect-nuclear-theory-and-neutron-stars","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mirror\u2019 nuclei help connect nuclear theory and neutron stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mirror-nuclei-help-connect-nuclear-theory-and-neutron-stars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adding or removing neutrons from an atomic nucleus leads to changes in the size of the nucleus. This in turn causes tiny changes in the energy levels of the atom\u2019s electrons, known as isotope shifts. Scientists can use precision measurements of these energy shifts to measure the radius of the nucleus of an isotope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding or removing neutrons from an atomic nucleus leads to changes in the size of the nucleus. This in turn causes tiny changes in the energy levels of the atom\u2019s electrons, known as isotope shifts. Scientists can use precision measurements of these energy shifts to measure the radius of the nucleus of an isotope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194572","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}