Michelle Thaller

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577 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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They're actually the source of what we think are gamma ray bursts, dangerous blasts of high energy radiation.

We're using an X-ray telescope to observe these things.

The surface of a neutron star is very hot.

It definitely does generate these high energy things.

The way you get radio waves is something, Neil, I'm sure it's a favorite of yours too.

It's a lovely thing called synchrotron radiation.

And would you like to go ahead and talk about synchrotron radiation?

How could you not?

Yeah.

I mean, the one thing that's perhaps something to mention about synchrotron radiation.

I mean, so you've got a couple of things going on.

I mean, you also have, you know, electrons are charged particles.

They respond to a magnetic field.

They can actually be accelerated.

Neutron stars have jets.

We see those as well.

Also, when you get synchrotron radiation happens largely when electron spirals around a magnetic field.

Just by the act of spinning around, that's a form of acceleration.

That's what it was.

And this is why astronomers just aren't greedy.

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