Lucy, in the sky, is a diamond
From PressTV - Harvard astronomers have discovered ‘Lucy’ the largest diamond in the galaxy located at a distance of 50 light years from the Earth. According to Scientists ‘Lucy’ is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun, and weighs at least ten billion trillion trillion carats. This is while the largest diamond on Earth which was found in South Africa weighed 546 carats. “You would need a jeweler’s loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond,” said Travis Metcalfe, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Astronomers added that Lucy is a crystallized white dwarf, the remaining hot core of a star after its death. They claim that in five billion years, our Sun will also die and turn into a similar diamond which will forever sparkle in the center of the solar system.
I would be happy with just a smidgen from Lucy! lol
I like this posting! I always enjoy reading about astronomical events in this amazing universe. I’m wondering what the gravitational force would be for a body with that kind of mass relative to Earth’s. (Yes… I’m a physics geek.=o)