Diamond star

[AndrewW]

A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar remnant is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming -- in effect -- an Earth-size diamond in space.

https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/cold-white-dwarf

So who wants to take their free trader and go prospecting¿

 

[sideranautae]

A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar remnant is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming -- in effect -- an Earth-size diamond in space.

https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/cold-white-dwarf

So who wants to take their free trader and go prospecting¿

At about 5,000 degrees F ya better have REAL good HEV Suits. :mrgreen:

 

[Tom Kalbfus]

A team of astronomers has identified possibly the coldest, faintest white dwarf star ever detected. This ancient stellar remnant is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming -- in effect -- an Earth-size diamond in space.

https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/cold-white-dwarf

So who wants to take their free trader and go prospecting¿

At about 5,000 degrees F ya better have REAL good HEV Suits. :mrgreen:

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky. "

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

It's got 7 verses/stanzas and goes on further about:

"Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so."

 

[Reynard]

Talk about your hot diamond!

 

[AdrianH]

Reading the report, it seems the astronomers found a pulsar which was behaving in such a way as to indicate the presence of a companion. They guessed that the companion is a white dwarf, then failed to find it.

Not knowing what's really there, they've put out this story that it's a huge diamond, in the hope that someone will get in their free trader and go to have a look. If the ship survives its expedition to this system, hopefully its crew will be able to tell the astronomers what they found. If it really is a diamond, the astronomers will get their lawyers to tell the free trader's crew that the diamond is theirs because they saw it first.

 

[Reynard]

De Beers probably laid claim yesterday and plan to move the South African population there.