Even for those of you who have no interest in celestial matters, you have to admit that this is some cool ass shit. A fcukin’ planet made entirely, or at least the great majority of condensed carbon, or diamond to be more specific. If anything will make the space race to get to far reaches of the galaxy progress, I wonder if it will be this. Seriously though, a planet made of diamond is so mind bogglingly intriguing that I just had to do today’s GPS on it.
The irony of the planet off course is that because the entire planet is made of diamond; diamond would surely be the least valuable resource on the planet due to its lack of scarcity. All of you out there taking econ 101 or remember it know what I am talking about.
Check out the article to get more details on our Gem planet neighbor in the Galaxy.
By Ben Hirschler
LONDON | Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:26pm EDT
(Reuters) – Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.
Diamond Planet Discovered
The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.
“The evolutionary history and amazing density of the planet all suggest it is comprised of carbon — i.e. a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun,” said Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
Lying 4,000 light years away, or around an eighth of the way toward the center of the Milky Way from the Earth, the planet is probably the remnant of a once-massive star that has lost its outer layers to the so-called pulsar star it orbits.
Pulsars are tiny, dead neutron stars that are only around 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in diameter and spin hundreds of times a second, emitting beams of radiation.
Diamond at the center of a planet discovered prior to the Diamond Planet: Click pic for link to article
In the case of pulsar J1719-1438, the beams regularly sweep the Earth and have been monitored by telescopes in Australia, Britain and Hawaii, allowing astronomers to detect modulations due to the gravitational pull of its unseen companion planet.
The measurements suggest the planet, which orbits its star every two hours and 10 minutes, has slightly more mass than Jupiter but is 20 times as dense, Bailes and colleagues reported in the journal Science on Thursday.
In addition to carbon, the new planet is also likely to contain oxygen, which may be more prevalent at the surface and is probably increasingly rare toward the carbon-rich center.
Its high density suggests the lighter elements of hydrogen and helium, which are the main constituents of gas giants like Jupiter, are not present.
Just what this weird diamond world is actually like close up, however, is a mystery.
“In terms of what it would look like, I don’t know I could even speculate,” said Ben Stappers of the University of Manchester. “I don’t imagine that a picture of a very shiny object is what we’re looking at here.”
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