"Diamond rain" falls on Saturn and Jupiter

Geege Schuman
7:09 PM Jul 16 2014

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So... Saturn is a girl's best friend?

Adam Rifkin
9:32 PM Jul 16 2014

A compacted star in the constellation Centaurus, too!

Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.

The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth....

Geege Schuman
9:41 AM Jul 17 2014

10 billion trillion trillion carats. Wow.

Adam Rifkin
9:05 AM Jul 17 2014