Lucy: The Earth-Sized Diamond Star in Space

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Meet Lucy, the diamond star the size of Earth! 🌌 A white dwarf made of crystallized carbon — the largest diamond in the universe! ✨  #Lucy #DiamondStar #SpaceFacts #Astronomy #CosmicDiamonds #OddIndex #StrangeUniverse

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00:00imagine a diamond not the size of a ring or a mountain but the size of earth and it's floating

00:07in space sounds like science fiction right well it's real and astronomers call it lucy

00:16lucy's official name is bpm 37 093 it's about 50 light years away in the constellation centaurus

00:24what makes it so bizarre is that lucy is a white dwarf star the dead core of a star that once

00:31shined like our sun when stars like the sun die they collapse into a super dense ball of carbon

00:38and oxygen and as they cool they begin to crystallize in 2004 scientists discovered that

00:46lucy's interior had already solidified into something extraordinary a massive cosmic diamond

00:52lucy is about the size of earth but two hundred thousand times denser it's estimated to weigh 10

01:00billion trillion trillion carats astronomers nicknamed it lucy after the beetle song lucy in the sky with

01:08diamonds here's the strange part our own sun will one day do the same thing in about five billion

01:15years when it dies it too will crystallize into a jewel-like white dwarf meaning the universe is

01:22literally filled with hidden diamonds in the sky so next time you look up at the stars remember

01:27one of them out there isn't just shining it's a cosmic diamond the size of a planet

01:33like subscribe and comment with what you would want an entire planet made out of

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