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Since Earth Science studies about Earth and it's neighbors, let's take a little tour to the universe.

When I was scrolling down my news feed (on facebook), I found this page, called Interesting Facts, wherein they post a lot of things that will surely amaze you. When I was browsing their pictures, I found a picture that inspired me to write this blog post. 

This:

Source: Interesting Facts

This is the World's Most Expensive Cricket Ball. Each diamond ball is studded with 5,728 pieces of diamonds with a worth of approximately $68,500.[1] 

Now why the hell is this included in my blog post? Diamonds are very expensive because it's beautiful, shining, shimmering kind of stuff. And also it's difficult to get because you have to dig and go to quarries just to mine diamonds. Do you remember the Mirny Diamond Mine on my previous post? It is the world's second largest man-made hole. Well, of course these things are related to what I'm gonna tell you guys.

Diamonds that have come to the Earth's surface are generally quite old, ranging from under 1 billion to 3.3 billion years old. This is 22% to 73% of the age of the Earth.[2] Furthermore, they said that not all diamonds found on Earth originated here. Diamond may be deposited here through asteroids.

Anyway, let's go back to the tour. "Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered." [3]

Source: Interesting Facts

It was named "Lucy" because of the Beatles Song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Isn't it cool? A star looks like a diamond in the sky. When Lucy faded and shrunk, astronomers find out that there are real diamonds in that star!

"We figured out that the carbon interior of this white dwarf has solidified to form the galaxy's largest diamond," says Metcalfe.

Awesome! So if it's the galaxy's largest diamond... can I go there? It's just 50 light-years from Earth. Haha. Probably not. 

"Our Sun will become a diamond that truly is forever," says Metcalfe.

If sun would become like Lucy, what will happened to the Earth? Oh well... That is just so futuristic of me. Just wondering.

More at: BBC News 

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I also found out that there is a freaking incredible Diamond planet that exists. This is a bit too far than Lucy. It's 4,000 light-years from earth. It was said in the Discovery News that this planet  is a leftover of a once-massive star.

More at: Discovery News

References:
[1] Oddee 
[2] Wikipedia 
[3] BBC News

Checked by: Prof. Crisencio M. Paner