"Lucy" in the sky with Diamonds

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Lucy

Astronomers announced Friday that a white dwarf star they've been studying is a chunk of crystallized carbon that weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds. That's the same as a diamond that is approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by 34 zeros.

Little bit of old news.. but cool as hell none the less.

[phee]

Lucy

Little bit of old news.. but cool as hell none the less.

WOW

[Homicidalheathen]

Ditto the WOW

[Raev]

I saw something on it on the History channel last night.

They were talking about Carbon and how there is a "star" with mass roughly the same as our sun made out of compressed carbon - aka a diamond.

[Msterbeau]

She needs to go on a diet.

[Hellion]

Saw this last night on Modern Marvels,thats a whole lotta money out there

[Rev.Reverence]

SWEET!

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I think we were all watching the same thing!

[jynxxxedangel]

Oooooh, BIG sparkly!