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by Donna Cooper, Jr. Copywriter

A former coworker forwarded me an interesting article. It was published nearly four years ago, but what’s a couple of years to the largest diamond in the universe? Scientists had finally been able to confirm a long suspected theory that white dwarf stars, primarily made of up carbon had crystallized cores, aka diamonds.

This star located somewhere over Australia, and about 50 light years away, contains the universe’s largest diamond, clocking in at … well, a lot of carats (10 billion trillion trillion). The largest diamond in the world is only a mere 546 carats and is known as the Star of Africa and is part of the British Crown Jewels.

This got me wondering…once we’ve depleted our diamond mines here on earth, will we start trying to harvest diamonds from these dwarf stars? Would that even be possible? How long until treasure hunters and diamond sellers are organizing space missions?

Even better, who wouldn’t want to be the first person to own a diamond from outer space? I wonder if DeBeers isn’t already planning a mission. Their campaign could be “Give Her A Diamond That Is Out Of This World!”

Just a thought…

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