Astronomers Find Diamond Star 4,000 km Wide

tclas writes "The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It's the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk. Astronomers have decided to call the star 'Lucy,' after the Beatles song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.'"

Finally

[Yvan256]

De Beers will be funding NASA from now on!

Great...

[mseidl]

Something else I can't afford but my wife will nag me about...

Garbage

[__aaelyr464]

DeBeers has taught me that the only REAL diamond is from mined from the earth, possibly covered in blood.

Blood diamond?

[Jailbrekr]

I'd like to see a Nigerian try to smuggle THAT diamond in his butt.

Re:Garbage

[Pojut]

"My favorite diamond only appears on the tip of the tailbone of Ethiopian babies. They...they debone the babies. I know, I know, it sounds horrible when you say it out loud. But if you saw it...stunning. Absolutely stunning." -Sarah Silverman

Re:Blood diamond?

[L4t3r4lu5]

I have a URL for you, but cannot post it because I am at work.

The first part is the name of a domesticated animal of the Bovidae [wikipedia.org] family. The second part (appended immediately to the previous word) is the TLD for Sweden. The TLD for the domain is the NYSE abbreviation for Cemex SAB de CV.

Hope this helps.

In other space-based news

[jitterman]

The Cassini spacecraft [newscientist.com] found something interesting in Saturn's rings.

Wait... what year is this?

Re:Blood diamond?

[RivenAleem]

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Sincrly
Nigerian Prince

Re:Great...

[MadKeithV]

Pah, going out for 50 light-years. I can make that run in less than 12 parsecs.

FIFTY-SIX

[Oxford_Comma_Lover]

But the story is not six years old. The diamond is fifty light years away.

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is from 1967. The light they saw six years ago was from about 1954.

It pre-dates Lucy by about 13 years.

impossible

[tverbeek]

This is obviously a hoax. Any early elementary school student can tell you that "diamond" and "star" are two entirely different shapes.