2007-09-08

The Biggest Diamond in the Galaxy


The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

It's the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk.

via: A Diamond Bigger than Earth Discovered in Constellation Centaurus | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond