Subject: I think it is more akin to a security feature.
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Posted on: 2013-09-10 16:50:00 UTC

Thor's hammer has an incantation of some sort on it that prevents it from being picked up by anyone save those who are deemed worthy or honorable enough to wield it, suggesting that the hammer has some capacity to scan minds and judge people by its near-unattainably high standards. In the comics, there have been a few others that have been seen by Mjolnir as worthy to bear it, and then those individuals can carry it around with one hand the way Thor does.

Mjolnir tends to blow a huge hole in the ground whenever Thor drops it while flying, though, so it is still crazy heavy, but someone with a Decepticon's level of strength should be able to move out from under it. Starscream couldn't grab the hammer and throw it off of him, since that would count as using the hammer, which might also preclude pushing it with his hands and feet, but he should be able to tilt himself so it slides off, or activate his jet thrusters and then flip over, causing the hammer to fall off of him and land on the ground below.

As for whether it was made of a neutron star(warning: this is probably going to come across as a huge nitpick to some people), the stars in Norse mythology were actually fragments of a planet-sized primordial giant named Ymir, set on fire with unending flame in a world composed almost entirely of lava and other high-temperature substances, and then hung on the inside of the night sky, a.k.a. Ymir's skull, which had recently been set over the world by the Aesir as part of their celebration for killing the world-giant.
A "dying star" in that context would still be very dense and strong, since it was made out of divine biomass, but it wouldn't be neutronium.

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