Astro Bling

I just heard about this, though it's not a brand new scientific find. In early 2004, astronomers found a star that appears to made of solid crystallized carbon: in other words, it's a giant diamond, 2500 miles in diameter. Nicknamed Lucy (after the Beatles song), it's a White Dwarf, which is an older version of a star similar to our own Sun, and weighs in at an impressive 10 billion trillion trillion carats (that's a 1 with 41 zeros). Gals, don't get excited; at 50 light years away it's too far to retrieve it to make into a ring. It appears our own Sun is heading in this direction and will become a giant diamond as well, but not for another 7 billion years or so. I bet there's a lot more of these stars out there; so many starts in the galaxy means there's no way Lucy is an anomaly.