Like their less massive counterparts, white dwarfs, the heaver a neutron star gets the smaller it gets. Imagine if a 10 pound bag of flour was smaller than a 5 pound bag. Neutron stars can be observed occasionally as an extremely small and hot star within a supernova remnant. However, they are more likely to be seen when they are a pulsar or part of an X-ray Binary. Neutron stars are also speculated to be involved in other high energy phenomena that we still do not understand.
Neutron stars are fascinating objects that are involved in many high energy phenomena.
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