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An alternative possibility is that 55 Cancri e is a solid planet made of carbon-rich material rather than the oxygen-rich material that makes up the terrestrial planets in the Solar System. [25] In this case, roughly a third of the planet's mass would be carbon, much of which may be in the form of diamond as a result of the temperatures and ...
The white dwarf BPM 37093, located 50 light-years (4.7 × 10 14 km) away in the constellation Centaurus, has a diameter of 2,500 miles (4,000 km), and may have a diamond core, which would make it one of the largest diamonds in the universe.
PSR J1719−1438 b is an extrasolar planet that was discovered on August 25, 2011, in orbit around PSR J1719−1438, a millisecond pulsar. The pulsar planet is most likely composed largely of crystalline carbon but with a density far greater than diamond. [1] [2] PSR J1719-1438 b orbits so closely to its host star that its orbit would fit ...
The researchers used plastic to recreate precipitation believed to form deep inside ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune. Diamonds rain from the sky on billions of planets, new research shows Skip ...
PSR B1620-26 b is an exoplanet located approximately 12,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius.It bears the unofficial nicknames "Methuselah" and "the Genesis planet" (named after the Biblical character Methuselah, who, according to the Bible, lived to be the oldest person) due to its extreme age.
Scientists say they've discovered a new galaxy that's so dark and compact, it's basically invisible. But it's actually been here the whole time. Whoa, Scientists Found the Universe's Invisible Galaxy
S cientists have discovered a new planet that may be able to support human life, according to a new study. The study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on Thursday ...
K2-38b, also designated EPIC 204221263 b, is a massive rocky exoplanet closely orbiting a Sun-like star and is one of the densest planets ever found.Discovered in 2016 by Crossfield et al. and later characterized by Sinukoff et al., K2-38b is a rocky super-Earth about 55% larger than Earth (nearly 20,000 km wide) but about 12 times more massive (around 7.2*10^25 kg, a bit less than Uranus ...