Ask a short question on any video on my channel. Archaeology: Astronomy: Biology: Chemistry: Climate: Controversial: Cool: Dinosaurs: … 0 Facebook Etiquette. He played Quark in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

But what are they?Let’s go back to the concept of a neutron star. "It's a very big 'if' right now," says Michael Turner, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago. Such dense matter, theorists believe, could exist within a strange star--and nowhere else that they can easily imagine.The second star, 3C58, is about 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Like Pokemon Go, we’ve collected them all. Stars, after all, can squeeze an atomic nucleus to densities unachievable in the lab.

What’s at the core of the neutron star, compared to the surface?The idea is that a quark star is an intermediate stage in between neutron stars and black holes.

If you add more mass to the neutron star, you cross this line where it’s too much mass to hold even the neutrons together, and the whole thing collapses into a black hole.A star like our Sun has layers. A last gasp of a star as its event horizon forms.It’s intriguing to think there are other exotic objects out there, formed as matter is compressed into tighter and tighter configurations, as the different limits of physics are reached and then crossed. And More…Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

That we know of, yes, however, there are a few even more exotic objects which are still just theoretical. According to the theories, neutron stars have such intense gravity they crush protons and electrons together into neutrons.

That's a tough question to answer since no one has actually seen a real isolated quark You have to rely on indirect evidence. The collapse of neutron star into a quark star is known as a quark-nova, and a number of recent supernova explosions that might have really been quark-novae.

But neutron stars still exist here in our universe, they haven’t left us. What’s at the core of the neutron star, compared to the surface?The idea is that a quark star is an intermediate stage in between neutron stars and black holes. Like Pokemon Go, we’ve collected them all. Credit: ChandraIn these objects, the underlying quarks that form the neutrons are further compressed.

Theoretically, such a scenario is seen as scientifically plausible, but it has been impossible to prove both observationally and experimentally, because the very extreme conditions needed for stabilizing quark matter cannot be created in any laboratory nor observed directly in nature.

One cannot hang around out there for billions of years without getting a history like no one else has, within a Hubble bubble. But not enough to fully collapse into a black hole. But not enough to fully collapse into a black hole.The difference between a neutron star and a quark star. Okay fine, I’m still looking for a Tauros, and so I’ll continue to wander the streets, like a zombie staring at his phone.Now, according to my attorney, I’ve fulfilled the requirements for shamelessly jumping on a viral bandwagon by mentioning Pokemon Go and loosely connecting it to whatever completely unrelated topic I was working on.Any further Pokemon Go references would just be shameless attempts to coopt traffic to my channel, and I’m better than that.It was pretty convenient, though, and it was easy enough to edit out the references to Quark on Deep Space 9 and replace them with Pokemon Go.

Their gravity and density is so great that all the protons and electrons from all the atoms are mashed together. Since x-ray emission is proportional to a star's size, the team was able to estimate the star's size by using measurements of x-ray brightness collected by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory. Is that all the exotic forms that stars can take? Why does it not blow itself to pieces when so many protons are squeezed together so closely? These were all theorized by physicists, and have all been discovered by observational astronomers. That they don’t fly around pure quark (but who knows).