Found the biggest diamond in the universe

A total of 50 light-years from Earth, astronomers saw the jewel of unprecedented size

Universal diamond is 1500 kilometers in diameter, weighs 10 billion trillion carats, glittering in the constellation Centauri. His «extracted» astrophysics from Harvard-Smithsonian Center (USA) and named «Lucy» in honor of the famous songs of the group «Beatles» «Lucy in the sky with diamonds». According to Travis Metcalf, head of the research team, to limit such a jewel, it will take a lap with the diameter of our Sun, a ring, which can be obtained by a diamond paste, it is easy to give to our Earth.

By its very nature, Lucy - a former Star, a so-called white dwarf, which spent all its thermonuclear fuel and the «dead». Remaining after the «death» carbon crystallize in a huge diamond.

Astronomers long suspected that all the white dwarfs is waiting for a precious future. And finally it got the evidence. Read to Lucy Diamond helped that it pulses. Catch the waves, scientists have understood that there is inside. Now, say that our Sun in 5 billion years will become a white dwarf, and another 2 billion years, turn into a diamond - not less, than Lucy.