Diamond Planet

NASA discovers planet made of diamond; faceted in our Milky Way galaxy approximately 4,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Serpens. 

Reuters reports:  "The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond."

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Notably, a similar discovery was made in 2004 after a mind blowing ten billion, trillion, trillion carat diamond [star] was found 50 light years away from Earth, within the constellation Centaurus. Astronomers dubbed the star "Lucy" after Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds.