{"id":560486,"date":"2018-12-21T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=655edb6fabd33c8ca459fcbdafba0ed9"},"modified":"2018-12-21T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T12:46:56","slug":"new-insights-into-pion-condensation-and-the-formation-of-neutron-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=560486","title":{"rendered":"New insights into pion condensation and the formation of neutron stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1973, Russian physicist A.B. Migdal predicted the phenomenon of pion condensation above a critical, extremely high\u2014several times higher than that for normal matter\u2014 nuclear density. Although this condensation has never been observed, it is expected to play a key role in the rapid cooling process of the core of neutron stars. These city-size heavy stellar objects are so dense that on Earth, one teaspoonful would weigh a billion tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1973, Russian physicist A.B. Migdal predicted the phenomenon of pion condensation above a critical, extremely high&mdash;several times higher than that for normal matter&mdash; nuclear density. Although this condensation has never been observed, it is expected to play a key role in the rapid cooling process of the core of neutron stars. These city-size heavy stellar objects are so dense that on Earth, one teaspoonful would weigh a billion tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560487,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560486\/revisions\/560487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}