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TIL A tablespoon of our sun weighs about 5 pounds. A tablespoon of Neutron Star (a massive star 10x larger than our sun that has run out of fuel, collapsed, exploded, and collapsed some more) would weigh 1 billion tons- the weight of Mount Everest.

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