Suppose if you are sent to a planet that is entirely made up of diamond, then what will be your feelings.
Its almost shocking for the diamond lovers that a team of researchers from UK, US, Australia, Germany and Italy with the help of Professor Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology using many telescopes in Australia, US and UK had discovered this planet in the Sepens group in our Milky Way galaxy.
But only one tiny problem is there, this planet is about 4000 light years away from us. So even if we travel with the speed of light it will take 4000 years to reach.
It has a diameter of 60 Kilometers about five times of our earth and one of the amazing thing is that it was discovered by a strange manner that a nearby pulsar was sending its signals. Pulsars are very small stars with only 15 miles diameter that send strong radio waves.
These radio waves regularly sweep our planet as the pulsar spins, as the radio waves was changing regularly, it led the team of astronomers to think that there is a nearby planet responsible for the change in its modulation, after estimation and examination of its density showed that it is much larger than expected, largely because it is made of crystalline substance means…Diamonds.
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