Oct

Space Diamonds

Great news! The sky is full with heavenly diamonds, even if they don’t actually fall right in our fingers.

Diamonds in the sky

You might be surprised of how many diamonds are there really. Of course it might be a little difficult to get them, since they are in the outer-space. Scientists have discovered that there are a big number of diamonds hanging “out-there”. The size of space diamonds is extremely small, even microscopic. Scientists believe that are found also in interstellar dust.

The biggest diamond was actually found in space. Scientists believe that it has 10 billion trillion trillion carats and it was in fact a dead star, a crystallized white dwarf, the core of the gigantic diamond. It is 50 light years from our planet, in the Centaurus constellation. It is called Lucy, after the song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”.

Diamond planet

Diamonds were discovered in also in meteorites fallen on Earth. It is believed that they formed either during collisions on the asteroid belt or during their impact with Earth. The size is usually the one of a sand-grain and they have the cubic structure of Earth diamonds. But some of them, more or less a third have hexagonal atomic structure never before seen in terrestrial diamonds.

Carbonado black diamond

Black diamonds (carbonados) also have questionable origins, since they have not ever been discovered along with the other diamonds, in the same mines. Their origin, scientist think, it’s extraterrestrial. They are found in Brazil and Central African Republic.

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