Diamond planet

[mus]

a 'Diamond' planet has been discovered.
Original article in French :http://www.slate.fr/lien/42875/planete-diamant

Translated by Google : http://translate.google.fr/translat...ttp://www.slate.fr/lien/42875/planete-diamant

 

[mus]

The article:
http://www.space.com/12731-diamond-alien-planet-discovered-neutron-star.html

 

[centralsquare]

It's only 4000 light years away...let's go!!!

 

[T L]

Scientist conjecture that there are many white dwarfs that have a core of crystallized carbon. They believe that when our own Sun dies in around six billion years, it will eventually have a core of crystallized carbon as well. The sun, as a yellow dwarf star, will end it's days in a white dwarf. Larger stars end as neutron stars, or black holes.

The pulsar this star orbits is a type of neutron star that gives off rotating beams of deadly gamma rays, so trust me, you wouldn't want to travel there.

 

[Arkteia]

You think so? I bet De Beers or Laurence Graff or someone else is already there!