Diamond Lucy
Astronomers in Harvard US have discovered what could be the largest diamond in the universe. Located in a galaxy 50 light years* away from Earth, is ‘Lucy’ the largest diamond in the galaxy
Scientists say that ‘Lucy’ is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun, and weighs at least ten billion trillion trillion carats.
The largest diamond found on Earth was found in South Africa and weighed 546 carats.
“You would need a jeweler’s loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond,” said Travis Metcalfe, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Astronomers added that Lucy is a crystallized white dwarf, the remaining hot core of a star after its death.
They also claim that in five billion years, our Sun will also die and turn into a similar diamond which will forever sparkle in the center of the solar system.
*Light Year. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (or 300,000 kilometers per second). Therefore, a light second is 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers). A light year is the distance that light can travel in a year, or: 186,000 miles/second * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles/year. A light year is therefore 5,865,696,000,000 miles (or 9,460,800,000,000 kilometers).