This Star Is The Size Of Manhattan, But Heavier Than The Sun

The awesome illustration above, from NASA, shows how Manhattan compares to the size of a Neutron star -- they are both about 12 miles across. Neutron stars are the crushed up core of massive stars, after they run out of fuel. Without a steady energy source, the star collapses under it's own weight and explodes out it's outer layers. They spin up to 43,000 times per minute and have a magnetic fields a trillion times stronger than Earth's. Sadly, we could never actually see this happen since neutr...