BPM 37093 + Happy Valentine

Girls, if anyone has ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell them that you will settle for BPM 37093.

I'm 100 (to the power of infinity) % sure that all girls will love BPM 37093. Guarantee + chop!

Girls have an obsession with these, while the thought of these triggers dread in guys. Just the mention of that word and guys go jittery.

Yeah... i'm referring to *diamonds*.

BPM 37093 is actually a burned-out star with that no-nonsense name.

The heart of BPM 37093, which attracted lots of attention from astronomers in the past 30 years or so, is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats! That's one followed by 34 zeros!!!

This hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

"You would need a jeweller's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem only recently.

This diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus.

The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun.

Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis.

A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication.

It is believed that BPM 37093 might last forever. Or perhaps around a billion years.

So the next time you should sing "twinkle twinkle little star...... IT'S a diamond in the sky" instead.

Anyway, i'm just reading my astronomy stuff. Really cool.

And hope you guys had a great Valentine's day.