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The largest known diamond is the size of ten billion trillion trillion carats
Star Lucy, named after the song The Beatles «Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a core of crystallized white dwarf, are from us within 50 light years. It was formed after the white dwarf, glowing, most likely, not less bright than the sun, for some reason, I went out and sank its core by gravity. All Lucy almost entirely - a huge space diamond.
Scientists believe that our Sun will become a white dwarf, too, when the die at the age of 5 billion years, and even after 2 billion years its core also crystallized.
via factroom.ru
