Space Daily July 08, 2026 • 19:30

A neutron star can pack more mass than our entire Sun into a sphere only about 20 kilometres across — roughly the size of a city — and a teaspoon of its material would weigh about a billion tonnes on Earth, more than every human being alive combined. - Space Daily

A neutron star is one of the few objects in astronomy where the familiar scale of a city and the unfamiliar scale of nuclear physics meet in the same sentence.

A neutron star is one of the few objects in astronomy where the familiar scale of a city and the unfamiliar scale of nuclear physics meet in the same sentence.
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