How Big Are the Mountains on a Neutron Star?

Start building your ideal daily routine with Fabulous. The first 100 people who click on the link will get a FREE week trial and 25% OFF Fabulous Premium: https://thefab.co/scishowspace2 The extreme mass of neutron stars leads to enormous gravitational pulls, resulting in nearly perfect spheres. But those imperfections, or mountains, might be able to help us spot more neutron stars in the future! And back on Venus, more ideas emerge regarding the possibility of life-indicating phosphine in it’s atmosphere. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow Space by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SciShowSpace ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporter for helping us keep SciShow Space free for everyone forever: GrowingViolet & Jason A Saslow! ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.12794 https://www.eurekalert.org/emb_releases/2021-07/ras-abl071521.php https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/N/Neutron+Star https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/whitedwarf_pulsar.html https://www.pnas.org/content/118/29/e2021689118 https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/07/trace-gas-phosphine-points-volcanic-activity-venus https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/earth-hazards/volcanoes/eruption-styles/ https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-1883-krakatau-eruption-a-year-of-blue-moons.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/then-there-were-3-nasa-to-collaborate-on-esa-s-new-venus-mission https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/science/neutron_stars.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20267 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11260 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neutron_star_illustrated.jpg https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/gravitational-waves-or-gravity-waves-formed-by-two-orbiting-stars-visualization-animation-version-6-sc_gkktfiru7dhfc https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus-phosphine-atmosphere.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_47.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_358.html https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20308 https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2010/VenusVolcano_NasaRubin_1600.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/krakatau-volcano-erupting-at-night-november-2011-gm155148397-18375228 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_-_December_23_2016.png