Meet Lucy, The Space Diamond And Most Expensive Star Ever Found

The largest diamond which was ever discovered isn’t on our planet, but it is far away across our galaxy. Lucy, or with its official name BMP 37093, was discovered in 2004. In fact, it is a star’s burned corpse, and it is just about 50 light years away from our planet in the sky region which we call the Centaurus constellation.

The space diamond Lucy

This white dwarf star is the chunk of carbon in a crystallized form which weighs about five million trillion trillion pounds. This equals to a diamond which as ten billion trillion trillion carats.

After its discovery in 2004, the astronomers nicknamed this diamond from space Lucy, after one song of the Beatles titled Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Lucy, which is also called V*886 Cen and BPM 37093 and, is the number 886 variable star found in the Centaurus constellation.

In comparison to this one, the giant precious stones on our planet of this kind are the Great Star of Africa, which is 530-carat, and the Golden Jubilee Diamond, which is 545-carat.

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