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Why are neutron stars white?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Early neutron stars are white because they are very hot. New neutron stars will have a surface temperature of around 1011 to 1012 degrees kelvin and will cool to around 1,000,000 degrees kelvin after a few years. Over time it will slowly cool even more.

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