Diamonds in the Sky!

In my on going hunt for Diamonds I stumbled across an article from a few years back which I wanted to share with everyone that reads my diamond blog.

The article is from 2004 and appeared in the Melbourne Age Newspaper.

Astronomers have found a diamond in the sky - and no they haven't been listening to the Beatles too much. The star, directly above Australia is the biggest known diamond in the Universe.

According to American astronomers a white dwarf star in the constellation of Centaurus, next to the Southern Cross, has been found to have a 3000-kilometre-wide core of crystallised carbon, or diamond.

It weighs 2.27 thousand trillion tonnes - that's 10 billion trillion trillion carats ladies! In comparison the biggest jewel on earth is a British crown jewel, the 530-carat Star of Africa.

This cosmic jewel is hidden beneath a layer of hydrogen and helium gases, with the diamond core making up between 90 per cent of its mass. "It's the mother of all diamonds," said astronomer Travis Metcalfe, who leads the team of researchers studying the star.

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