MrBreeze9999's profile

Last login: 3 days agoMrBreeze9999: Larry is a married guy from North Wales, Pennsylvania, USA.; Likes 2,555 pages, 203 videos, 54 photos • 101 fans • Received 33 reviews; Member since Dec 27, 2006

Favorites » His Blog

Press TV - Largest galactic diamond found: Jan 8, 12:37pm 33 reviews •http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=...; Largest galactic diamond found
Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:04:41
Lucy, the space diamond
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.