In 1986 , alcock et al . studied the structures of the strange stars . they found that a typical strange star basically consists of two components , a solid crust and a core filled with quarks which are likely superconducting liquid 1986年，艾确和他的同僚对奇异星的结构进行研究，发现一颗典型的奇异星，主要是由一个固体外壳和一个可能呈超导液体状态的夸克核心所构成。
But the basic global properties of strange stars are very similar to those of neutron stars including mass , radius and magnetic field etc . one of the main differences is that the crust of a strange star is much thinner than that of a neutron star 但整体而言，奇异星的特性，无论在质量半径和磁场方面，都和中子星相类似。两者主要不同之处，是奇异星的外壳要比中子星的薄得多。
Scientists further compared the cooling curves of neutron stars and strange stars with the observed surface temperature of psr 0656 14 , and concluded that psr 0656 14 might be a strange star by assuming that other rapid cooling mechanisms in neutron stars are absent 科学家把中子星和奇异星的冷却曲线，与一颗编号为psr 0656 14的中子星所观测到的表面温度作出比较，发现假如没有其他因素加速了其冷却速度的话，那么它其实可能是一颗奇异星。
Their detailed origin remains unknown . that doesn t stop the astronomers from guessing though ! amongst the candidates are the collapse of supermassive stars over 60 times the mass of the sun , mergers of two neutron stars , or conversion of a neutron star to a strange star 另一方面，伽玛射线爆发是发生在宇宙深处一种最强烈的爆炸，虽然至今而人们还未弄清它们的来源，但是这并没有令天文学家放弃推测，其中的一些猜想，包括比太阳质量大60倍的巨型恒星正在塌缩两颗中子星合并，或是中子星变为奇异星。
