The diamond planet is a little bit bigger than Earth, with twice the radius and, due to its density, eight times the mass.
About 900 light-years away, an ancient white dwarf star has cooled into a crystallized chunk of carbon — a diamond. But this isn't just any old diamond hiding in space: It's the size of Earth, and it's 11 billion years old.
Tiny traces provided clues. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of a celestial diamond after finding it on Earth's surface. The stone, called lonsdaleite, has a hardness and strength that exceeds that of a regular diamond. The rare mineral arrived here by way of a meteorite, new research has suggested.
NASA has taken a closer look at 55 Cancri e, an exoplanet that earned the nickname "diamond planet" due to research that suggests it has a carbon-rich composition.
But because of its unusually high mass — 1.1 times that of the sun's — Lucy is a whopper. It measures only 2,500 miles across (less than one-third the size of Earth) yet weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds, making it the largest dwarf yet identified.
Deep in the Constellation of Centarus lies a star 50 light-years away from the Earth. This star is so… unique that astronomers nicknamed it “Lucy.” Lucy, also known as V886 Centauri and BPM 37093, is (at first glance) an ordinary white dwarf star. But it seems to hide something rather special.
The Golden Jubilee diamond
In 1997, the diamond was presented to the King of Thailand after it took specialists a few years to cut and polish. Today, the largest finished diamond is owned by the Royal Family of Thailand.
Here's a good interview question to test their smarts: What is the diamond planet worth? The answer: $26.9 nonillion ($26.9 followed by 30 zeros). Sure, this is the first time in your life that you have ever thought of a nonillion. But you've surely thought of trillions before — and that's a one followed by 12 zeros.
Named GJ 504b, the planet is made of pink gas. It's similar to Jupiter, a giant gas planet in our own solar system. But GJ 504b is four times more massive. At 460°F, it's the temperature of a hot oven, and it's the planet's intense heat that causes it to glow.
The Diamond Planet
Using Jupiter's mass as an indication, if the planet was made of solid diamond, it would ring in at 37.974 nonillion carats (1 nonillion = 1 with 30 zeros).
There is an asteroid with a metal-composition that lurks around between Mars and Jupiter while orbiting the Sun and it is made up mainly of gold. Named 'Psyche 16', it was first discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis and he named the asteroid after the Greek Goddess of Soul 'Psyche'.
Almost every galaxy can be classified as a spiral, elliptical, or irregular galaxy. Only 1-in-10,000 galaxies fall into the rarest category of all: ring galaxies.
A massive gas giant orbiting a star about 855 light-years from Earth, WASP-121b may have metal clouds and rain made of liquid gems, according to new research. A study showing how water atmospherically cycles between the planet's two sides published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Scientists have found evidence of cubic zirconia in Moon rocks, showing that the universe not only holds diamonds, but its own fire-safe knock-offs. Space could be absolutely shimmering with precious stones, though Mao emphasizes that they probably aren't quite like the ones in earthlings' jewelry boxes.
Mind boggling as it may seem, but most diamonds are older than most stars in the sky. That would make the oldest diamonds more than three billion years old and the youngest diamonds nine hundred million years old. Scientists are under the impression that diamonds have been forming throughout all of earth's history.
Venus is the planet that is associated with the diamond. After the sun and the moon, it is this planet that twinkles the brightest in the sky - so naturally, the equally dazzling diamond represents the positive qualities of Venus.
Different minerals appear in a rainbow of colors in this image of Mercury from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. This false-colour image of Mercury was made using data collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which was designed to study the planet's surface and its very thin atmosphere.
Pluto is shown in a rainbow of colors that distinguish the different regions on the planet. The left side of the planet is mostly blue-green with purple swirls, while the right side ranges from a vibrant yellow-green at the top to a reddish orange toward the bottom."
It's a super Earth whose upper atmosphere reaches 500 degrees Fahrenheit (260 degrees Celcius), meaning it only gets hotter as you move down. It's barely a hair away from its star, completing a year in 1.6 Earth days. Life is incredibly unlikely to survive there.
So: 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 is a hundred quintillion, or ten to the twentieth power.
As discussed in our blog, a quadrillion can be defined as 1 with 15 zeros. It can written as 1,000,000,000,000,000.
In the American system each of the denominations above 1,000 millions (the American billion) is 1,000 times the preceding one (one trillion = 1,000 billions; one quadrillion = 1,000 trillions).
The most valuable diamond in the world is Koh-i-Noor, also spelled Koh-i-Nur and Kohinoor. The diamond is also called the Mountain of Light diamond, and it's known as one of the largest cut diamonds, weighing a whopping 105.6 carats. Koh-i-Noor is a colorless diamond and features an oval brilliant cut.
Kohinoor is the most expensive diamond in the world. As per reports, the oval 109 carat diamond weighs 21.6 grams and is the main diamond of the British Crown. Its origin is traced back to India with Queen Elizabeth II being the current owner of the diamond.