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Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4,000 km Wide
tclas writes "The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It's the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk. Astronomers have decided to call the star 'Lucy,' after the Beatles song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.'"
Something else I can't afford but my wife will nag me about...
DeBeers has taught me that the only REAL diamond is from mined from the earth, possibly covered in blood.
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But the story is not six years old. The diamond is fifty light years away.
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is from 1967. The light they saw six years ago was from about 1954.
It pre-dates Lucy by about 13 years.
-- IANAL, this isn't legal advice, and definitely isn't legal advice for you. Also, Squee!