Whenever I read about neutron stars, they are always too far away (like millions of light years), so I did a quick search and found one closest to earth about 250 to 1000 light years and apparently it is above the plane of the milky way galaxy.<p><a href="https://www.space.com/4247-astronomers-find-closest-neutron-star.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.space.com/4247-astronomers-find-closest-neutron-...</a><p>I wish we could watch these neutron stars and black holes more closely, we know so little about the universe.
Most interesting to me is that the signature detected in the gravitational waves was up to 6 minutes long. With increased accuracy and quicker notification, telescopes could be aimed at such collisions before they happen. I never would have thought that was possible before.
It's kind of astounding given we're just dumb people on a dumb planet moving at uninteresting speeds or distances or times that we can predict the result of a neutron star collision and be right. Especially when our physics breaks down at those energy and gravity levels.