Not a Quirk But a Quark... a Quark Star that is!
Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star. A quark star is a hypothetical type of star composed of ultra dense quark matter. Quarks are the fundamental components of protons and neutrons, which make up the nucleus of atoms. The most dense objects known to exist today are neutron stars -- stars composed entirely of tightly packed neutrons. Quark stars would be produced when neutron stars collapse even further.
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If a neutron star were to collapse into a quark star much more energy and radiation would be unleashed than what is being found.
Revelations about stars are coming faster each day. OBAFGKMRNSW (Oh be a fine girl kiss me right now; smack - wow!)- star classification nomenclature and memory tool - works very well.<br><br>Now that so much has been discovered about star compositions, masses, densities, life cycles, etc., it seems that the old Nova type classification should be updated to a more relevant nomenclature based on these variables. I have found no such elemental nomenclature. <br><br>What I want to be able to do is to point out or describe a star by its by claasification and explain it's likely manner of birth, its maturing process, its probable place withing it's life cycle, it's commonality / rarity and its likely manner of death which is always some sort of (metamorphosis).<br><br>Our body of knowledge can predict much about interstellar space and it's objects, but I wish the info could be more mainstream - perhaps condesned into a simple group of charts - COMPLETE WITH ACRONYMS and WITTY SENTENCES!!!! It is bringing this info mainstream that captures amateur imaginations and helps many among us to delve more deeply into the research aspects that aid professional astronomers.<br><br><br><br>
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