cutes814
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No, literally!! I read this little piece of information on this website and thought I''d share:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top10_star_mysteries-10.html
If you don''t want to visit the site, this is what it says:
"When a star the mass of our Sun uses up its nuclear fuel, it expels most of its outer layers to leave just a very hot core called a white dwarf. Scientists had speculated that at the bottom of a white dwarf’s 31 mile (50 kilometer)-thick crust was crystallized carbon and oxygen, similar to a diamond. And in 2004, they found that a white dwarf near the constellation Centaurus, BPM 37093, was made of crystallized carbon weighing 5 million trillion trillion pounds. In diamond-speak, that’s 10 billion trillion trillion carats!"
How much would a flight to that star cost??? I''m am hopping on the next flight!! J/K. Wow, 10 billion trillion trillion carats...
Enough for all of us to have the jewerly of our dreams and more!
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/top10_star_mysteries-10.html
If you don''t want to visit the site, this is what it says:
"When a star the mass of our Sun uses up its nuclear fuel, it expels most of its outer layers to leave just a very hot core called a white dwarf. Scientists had speculated that at the bottom of a white dwarf’s 31 mile (50 kilometer)-thick crust was crystallized carbon and oxygen, similar to a diamond. And in 2004, they found that a white dwarf near the constellation Centaurus, BPM 37093, was made of crystallized carbon weighing 5 million trillion trillion pounds. In diamond-speak, that’s 10 billion trillion trillion carats!"
How much would a flight to that star cost??? I''m am hopping on the next flight!! J/K. Wow, 10 billion trillion trillion carats...
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