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Monday, February 16, 2004  Like a diamond in the sky?  Actually, it is a diamond in the sky: a white dwarf star that's been compressed into a 10 billion trillion trillion carat diamond. No word on whether it's one of those sparkly transparent diamonds, or just a black industrial-grade diamond; still, that's an awful lot of diamond. DeBeers would be really pissed off if someone figured out how to mine it. (I imagine that would be difficult, since getting anywhere near a white dwarf would probably result in getting sucked into its enormous gravitational field and vaporized in its intense heat. And it's not like the earth is running out of diamonds any time soon, anyway. They're a lot less rare than DeBeers would have you think.) [ at 12:07 PM • by Abby • permalink •   ]

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