The Galaxy's Largest Diamond

unassimilatible writes "The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reports 'to impress your favorite lady this Valentine's Day, get her the galaxy's largest diamond.' A newly discovered cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is 2,500 miles across and weighs 5 million trillion trillion pounds, which translates to approximately 10 billion trillion trillion carats, or a one followed by 34 zeros. A cheesy, unrealistic simulation is also available. AP has a story as well."

Comments

Re:Um...not quite

[Tirel]

yes well the star has 300000 times bigger mass than earth, the gravitational pull would compress the gas and plasma into solid rock-like material.

I hope this is a troll

[zabieru]

50 light years is the distance that light (the stuff we use to see, you know?) travels in 50 years. The early reptiles were born too early to see it. Your parents were not. Ask them about it.