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Mother of all diamonds found
February 17, 2004
Astronomers have discovered a diamond star weighing 10 billion trillion trillion carats. The cosmic gem is the crystallized carbon core of a white dwarf star. Credit: Travis Metcalfe and Ruth Bazinet, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Space scientists revealed today that they have found the biggest known diamond in the universe - a 10-billion-trillion-trillion-carat gem.
US astrophysicists said they found the massive rock on Valentine's Day, positioned 50 light years away in the constellation Centaurus.
"You would need a jeweller's loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond," said Travis Metcalfe who led the researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.
The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon in the core of a white dwarf star.
It is 4,000 km across and weighs 2.27 million trillion trillion kg, which translates to about 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by 34 zeros.
"It's the mother of all diamonds," said Dr Metcalfe.
"Some people refer to it as Lucy in a tribute to the Beatles song, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds."
The biggest diamond on earth is the 530-carat Star of Africa, which is located the British crown jewels.
Dr Metcalfe said our sun would become a white dwarf when it dies in 5 billion years.
Two billion years after that, the Sun's ember core will crystallise as well, leaving a giant diamond in the centre of our solar system.
"Our sun will become a diamond that truly is forever," said Dr Metcalfe.
Researchers at the institution made a second Valentine's Day discovery.
The Spitzer Space Telescope spied a cluster of red newborn stars, positioned in a rosebud-shape.
The star cluster is 3,300 light years away in the constellation Cepheus.
The stars formed from a massive cloud of gas and dust that contains enough raw material to create a thousand sun-like stars.
Fragments of the cloud became so cold and dense that they collapsed into stars.
Most stars in our Milky Way galaxy are thought to form in such clusters.
Mother of all diamonds found
February 17, 2004
Astronomers have discovered a diamond star weighing 10 billion trillion trillion carats. The cosmic gem is the crystallized carbon core of a white dwarf star. Credit: Travis Metcalfe and Ruth Bazinet, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Space scientists revealed today that they have found the biggest known diamond in the universe - a 10-billion-trillion-trillion-carat gem.
US astrophysicists said they found the massive rock on Valentine's Day, positioned 50 light years away in the constellation Centaurus.
"You would need a jeweller's loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond," said Travis Metcalfe who led the researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.
The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon in the core of a white dwarf star.
It is 4,000 km across and weighs 2.27 million trillion trillion kg, which translates to about 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by 34 zeros.
"It's the mother of all diamonds," said Dr Metcalfe.
"Some people refer to it as Lucy in a tribute to the Beatles song, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds."
The biggest diamond on earth is the 530-carat Star of Africa, which is located the British crown jewels.
Dr Metcalfe said our sun would become a white dwarf when it dies in 5 billion years.
Two billion years after that, the Sun's ember core will crystallise as well, leaving a giant diamond in the centre of our solar system.
"Our sun will become a diamond that truly is forever," said Dr Metcalfe.
Researchers at the institution made a second Valentine's Day discovery.
The Spitzer Space Telescope spied a cluster of red newborn stars, positioned in a rosebud-shape.
The star cluster is 3,300 light years away in the constellation Cepheus.
The stars formed from a massive cloud of gas and dust that contains enough raw material to create a thousand sun-like stars.
Fragments of the cloud became so cold and dense that they collapsed into stars.
Most stars in our Milky Way galaxy are thought to form in such clusters.
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