6 Crazy Facts About Space That Will Make You Feel Tiny

A Teaspoon That Weighs More Than A Mountain

If you could somehow scoop up a single teaspoon of material from a neutron star, it would weigh about 10 million tons. That’s roughly the weight of 1,000 Eiffel Towers in a single spoonful. Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of massive stars that exploded as supernovas. The gravity is so intense that atoms are crushed into a soup of neutrons, creating the densest matter in the known universe. You’d need a forklift just to lift your morning coffee.