Categories: Comparisons
An example of trying to explain a phenomenon at a scale well beyond normal human experience:
"If you think of our Sun as a tennis ball in size, the star that formed [supernova 19]87a was about as big as the London Eye. So it's a very massive star.
The pressure and density right in the centre of that star is phenomenal. So it creates this really, really, compact core. A teaspoon of this material, of a neutron star, weighs about as much as Everest. So, it's a very dense, very heavy core that is left behind."
Dr. Olivia Jones
Dr. Olivia Jones (UK Astronomy Techmology Center) was being interviewed on a episode ('Largest ever covid safety study') of Science in Action.
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