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Once again, welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home.

Marcus Paff alongside Reggie Rizzou on today's episode, the space lighthouses

that may one day help us reach our destination in space. Plus this year in Tinder statistics,

what stands out in the modern dating scene, and a restaurant bill that might have you

washing dishes for at least a couple of years. All that plus this week

in history coming up on Cool Stuff Ride Home. Lighthouses in the sky. That's how a recent

Mashable report described the neutron stars being mapped by NASA, a task taking place in part

because it may one day be used as a form of GPS for space travel.

And while that scenario is likely still ways off, the stars themselves are fascinating.

First and foremost, a neutron star is the collapsed core of a super giant,

the latter of which are among the largest and brightest stars in space. Neutron stars

are the result of a supernova explosion combined with gravitational collapse of said object.

And these things are heavy, literally. Per the report, just a sugar cube-sized piece of this

dense material weighs one billion tons.

NASA notes that's as much as a mountain on Earth.

They go on to say the objects are like crushing half a million times Earth's mass into a sphere

about 12 miles across. Unbelievable.

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