Jun 12, 2020 · Unearth Lucy, the white dwarf planet discovered to be the largest diamond in the universe, and the history of pop culture's relationship with natural diamonds.

Jun 26, 2014 · The biggest diamond ever found on Earth, known as the Cullinan diamond, weighed three thousand one hundred and six carats before it was cut, or about one and three-tenths pounds.

BPM 37093 is around 50 light years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus. Many astronomers have believed for decades that white dwarfs could solidify into huge diamonds, but this is the first direct evidence. White dwarfs are the cooling cores of dead stars. They are made of carbon and only shine from residual heat as they gradually cool.

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.

Sep 18, 2023 · Below, we highlight the 10 largest diamonds ever discovered, in ascending order. While not all are CLIPPIRs, they are, collectively, an impressive bunch—until that is, they are unseated.

Feb 13, 2004 · The Star of Africa was cut from the largest diamond ever found on Earth, a 3,100-carat gem. The huge cosmic gem (technically known as BPM 37093) is actually a crystallized white dwarf.

Like an episode out of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has announced the discovery of a mass of crystallized carbon formerly known as star BPM 37093, now known as the biggest diamond in the galaxy, fifty light years away from Earth in the constellation Centaurus.

On February 13, 2004, astronomers discovered that a white dwarf star known as BPM37093 is actually the largest diamond yet discovered in the universe! Digging deeper, we find our great gem in the constellation Centaurus, about 50 light years away.

Jun 25, 2024 · The largest diamond in the universe is a white dwarf star named BPM 37093, also known as "Lucy." It is located 50 light-years away from Earth and is composed mostly of crystallized carbon ...

Feb 16, 2004 · Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50...