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quark star
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quark star [′kwärk ‚stär]
(astronomy)
A hypothetical star so dense that the nucleons have lost their identity and stability is derived from degenerate quarks.


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Byline: Swig McGuinness AS we are on the cusp of December, it's getting to that time of year when we hear about how Three Wise Men spotted a strange star in the sky and followed it.
Not in any traditional sense, but through a complex series of psychic experiments to communicate, urgently, with a strange star hurtling towards Earth.
The papers on binary systems include the interplay between diffusion and accretion in nuclear reactions and tidal effects in binaries, while those on compact star systems include reports on the phase-resolved spectra of the crab pulsar and high energy emissions from strange stars.
 
 
 
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