NASA to launch first-ever mission to study neutron stars
NASA is launching the world's first mission to study the rapidly rotating neutron stars, 50 years after their discovery. Neutron stars, weighing over 1.4 solar masses, are so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh a billion tonnes on Earth. The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission's launching is scheduled on June 3 aboard a SpaceX rocket.