What IF you bring a SPOONFULL of Neutron star to earth!

What if we took just a spoonfull of neutron star and transported it to earth? Such a tiny amount of neutron star couldn't possibly destroy us all... Or could it?

 Firstly, what is neutron star?

A Neutron star is a celestial object of very small radius (typically 30 km) and very high density, composed predominantly of closely packed neutrons. Neutron stars are thought to form by the gravitational collapse of the remnant of a massive star after a supernova explosion, provided that the star is insufficiently massive to produce a black hole. It is the second most densed celestial object after black hole known to man!

Neutron stars are pretty small, as far as stellar objects go. It is possibly a size of the city. Despite that, they have about 1.5 times the mass of our sun.

Neutron stars have some of the strongest gravitational and magnetic fields in the universe.  The gravity is strong enough to flatten almost anything on the surface. The magnetic fields of neutron stars can be a billion times to a million billion times the magnetic field on the surface of Earth. 

So now lets get to the point!

One of the closest neutron star is about  400 Light Years away from earth which is nicknamed Calvera. Even if we get our fastest Rocket it would take 11 Million Years to reach there.

Okay, lets assume that we have reached within the orbit of neutron star. You'd be trying to get you spacecraft through a magnetic field thats tens of millions of times stronger than Earth's. Your ship's computer would be useless if they had any ferromagnetic materials like iron, nichel or cobalt in them. You wouldn't want any of those materials anywhere in your craft.You have to dodge the electromagnetic radiation beams shooting from the star faster than you blink!

And then when you finally manage to get to surface of the Calvera, you'd be immedietely vapourized due to the temperatures being around 1 million degrees. Any part of your craft that wasn't vopourized, would be crushed by the star's intense gravity. 

Lets not end up your story right there, instead lets equip you with a super suit that could withstand insanely high temperatures and extremely high pressure of neutron star.

And here you have it- a spoonful of Calvera loaded in your ship. Now what? If you try to scoop the sun with a teaspoon, you'd only get about 2 kg of it. The same amount of a neutron star, would weigh anywhere fron 1 Billion to 6 Billion tonnes!

You wouldn't able to lift that spoon in first place! And thats not even the worst part. Because the gravity of the neutron star is so intense, it fuses electron and protons together. Only neutrons are left at steller core. When they aren't buried down inside a star, neutrons don't last too long. 

After ten minutes the scoop of neutron star would break down into neutron and protons, and release as much energy as Sun produces in two or three seconds.

Good thing that you didn't have enough time to bring that stuff back to earth. Leave Neutron stars Where they belong far, far away from us.

Thank You