Cosmic Kitchen: Nuclear Pasta in the Depths of Stars ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Nuclear Pasta and Crustal Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Neutron Star"
Deep inside neutron stars, atoms fuse into macaroni-like strands: this nuclear pasta makes the star tremble and reveals the secrets of its pulses.
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Inside dead stars, atomic nuclei stick together into pasta-like strands and sheets. This "pasta" makes the crust billions of times stronger than steel and is responsible for the star's trembling. Possibly, the pulsations of such stars could be used to test theories of nuclear forces.
🎯 "Nuclear pasta" isn't a figure of speech—it's a precise term. The layers really do resemble spaghetti, lasagna, and gnocchi. But they're so strong that a strand as thin as a human hair could support the weight of a metropolis.