Cracking the Crusts of Neutron Stars
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 20:21
in Astronomy & Space
Research by Michigan State University scientists is helping shed light on neutron stars, city-sized globs of ultra-dense matter that occasionally collapse into black holes. A team led by Betty Tsang, a professor at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, has had some success in measuring a key nuclear quality that may make it easier to describe the outer crusts of such stars.