w1ld wrote: ] ] The biggest ever diamond has been found floating in ] ] space. The gem, estimated at close to 10 billion trillion ] ] trillion carats, is at the core of a dead star (BPM ] ] 37093) - a crystallised white dwarf. ] ] Our own Sun will become a white dwarf when it dies 5 billion ] ] ] years from now, having first expanded to engulf almost ] everything ] ] in the solar system. Two billion years after that, the core ] will ] ] crystallise, leaving a giant diamond in its place ] ] How romantic is that! Kewwwwwwl, that is awesome :) RE: Moon-sized diamond found in space |