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Neutron Star Material (1 Teaspoon)

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Neutron Star Material (1 Teaspoon)

A spoonful of star that weighs as much as a mountain/Deep Space

Neutron stars are so dense that a single teaspoon of their material would weigh about 6 billion tonnes on Earth. This is because neutron stars are essentially giant atomic nuclei, with the mass of about 1.4 Suns compressed into a sphere just 20 km across. The density is roughly 4 x 10^17 kg per cubic meter, or about 400 trillion times denser than water.

Measurements

Volume (1 teaspoon)5 millionths m^3
221 sextillionthsGreat Lakes combined
1.1 tenthsShot glasses

5 mL

Mass of 1 teaspoon2 trillion kg
667 billionLabrador puppies
1 trillionChihuahuas

About 2 billion tonnes

Typical neutron star radius10,000 m
909,091Shirt buttons
33,356Light-nanoseconds
1.5 thousandthsNile Rivers

About 10 km

Typical neutron star mass2.8 nonillion kg
515 octillionUnabridged dictionaries
9.3 sextillionSupertanker loads
6.7 septillionEmpty Boeing 747s

About 1.4 solar masses

Surface gravity2 trillion N
10 trillionChicken nugget weights
2 trillionButton presses

Per kg, about 200 billion g

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