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NASA’s recent picture of a neutron star is leaving netizens in awe

18/01/2021 11:43 PM | Click to read full article

The picture, which was posted on the Instagram account of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, features the neutron star, as a bright source, at the centre of supernova remnant RCW 103.

According to NASA, matter in a neutron star is so tightly packed that a sugar-cube-sized amount of neutron star material would weigh more than 1 billion tons — roughly the weight of Mount Everest.

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