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Astronomers Discover Earth-Sized Diamond
ygslash (893445) writes Astronomers at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory announced that they have discovered what appears to be the coolest white dwarf ever detected. The white dwarf is formerly a star similar to our own sun which, after expending all of its fuel, has cooled to less than a chilly 3000 degrees Kelvin and contracted to a size approximately the same as Earth. A white dwarf is composed mostly of carbon and oxygen, and the astronomers believe that at that temperature it would be mostly crystallized, forming something like a huge diamond.
Lucy is here. I repeat, Lucy is here.
Scintillate, Scintillate, Diminutive Stellar Orb,
How inexplicable to me it seems the stupendous problem of your existence.
Elevated at such an immeasurable distance in an apparently perpendicular direction from this terrestrial planet which we occupy,
Resembling in thy dazzling and unapproachable effulgence, a gem of purest carbon set solitaire in a university of space.
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Is your relationship cold, shriveled and almost unimaginably distant? Astronomical diamonds may be for you!
Is your relationship worth (letting some expendable poor person handle the) dying for? Good, honest, terrestrial diamonds will express the depth of your affection, even as they increase the depth of our giant pit-mines!
Isn't it supposed to just be "3000 Kelvin"?