In a sphere about 12 miles across. These are some of the most fascinating objects in the universe.
I wonder, if you could ever get close enough to even see one, before this happens:
Definitely not your friend. If you dropped an object 3 feet away from the surface of a neutron star, it would be going several million miles/hour when it hit the surface. That’s some pretty gnarly gravitational acceleration. If you went there, you and your spaceship would wind up as a thin film on the surface of the neutron star. That thin film would most likely be a thin smear of various subatomic particles. It would not be possible to put Humpty Dumpty back together again.