Astronomers discover planet made of diamond
An international research team made the discovery with scientists from Australia, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
This planet is lying 4,000 light years away, or around an eighth of the way toward the center of the Milky Way from the Earth.
The new planet is far denser than any other known planets so far and consists largely of carbon.
Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.
An international research team made the discovery with scientists from Australia, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
This planet is lying 4,000 light years away, or around an eighth of the way toward the center of the Milky Way from the Earth.
The new planet is far denser than any other known planets so far and consists largely of carbon.
Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.
Using the giant Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia,astrophysicists have found an incredibly dense planet comprised of crystalized carbon -- the stuff of diamonds -- in orbit about a pulsar.
This is more dense then compared the jupiter.
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