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The largest diamond ever found is the burned out corpse of a star named BPM 37093, about 50 light years away from Earth.


The white dwarf star is a chunk of crystallized carbon that weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds.

Astronomers say that similarly, our Sun will deplete its nuclear fuel and die in another five billion years. About two billion years after that, the cinder Sun will be a similar diamond.




1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Brilliantly put.
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