Look at number 9 on this list: http://blog.koldcast.tv/2010/koldcast-n ... ter-space/
There really is a star made of diamond! Of course, all the light in the universe does not have to pass through it.
Spectra really exists - kind of
Spectra really exists - kind of
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I remember that article, the original one from February 13th 2004.
Katy posted about it on the Rainbow Brite mailing list, but I think a forum member posted it. The forum archive here doesn't go back that far, because I think the forum changes servers that summer.
This is what it said though:
If you really want something cool, check out a "Lone Star Cut" jewel. The cut is not used on diamonds, but it is used on other colored stones. The stone is cut in such a way that the light reflects a star in the middle of the diamond or jewel. OMG! I <3 these cuts so much.
Katy posted about it on the Rainbow Brite mailing list, but I think a forum member posted it. The forum archive here doesn't go back that far, because I think the forum changes servers that summer.
This is what it said though:
But, ya know....even regular un-cut diamonds look like rocks.Astronomers Spy Massive Diamond
If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093. The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros.
The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem.
The diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus.
The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun.
Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis.
A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication.
If you really want something cool, check out a "Lone Star Cut" jewel. The cut is not used on diamonds, but it is used on other colored stones. The stone is cut in such a way that the light reflects a star in the middle of the diamond or jewel. OMG! I <3 these cuts so much.
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Spectra really exists - kind of
Cool!
Wow, I want those earrings!!!!!!!!!!!! My middle name is STARR!!!!!!!!
Wow, I want those earrings!!!!!!!!!!!! My middle name is STARR!!!!!!!!