A destroyed star becomes a planet made of diamonds

An international research squad has witness an exoplanet made entirely of rhombus . Although this may seem glamorous , researchers think it is only the barren cadaver of a superstar , rob of its mass by its companion .

Some time ago , a radio set scope picked up the repeated signal of a pulsar . A pulsar is a rapidly - spinning superstar with a rotation that let out radio waves in hard pulses outwards . This pulsar lie in the plane of the Milky Way , not particularly signalize itself from any other pulsar out there . That is , until the astronomers analyse the spin of the pulsar and found that it was regulate in a sure way . It was almost as if the star was being tug one fashion or another via gravitation . The only affair that could be making that particular spin was an orbiting planet .

This planet was orbiting fast and close . It was circle the pulsar once every two minute and ten minutes , at a distance just about the wheel spoke of Earth ’s sun . It was about five times the size of it of earth , a comparatively small major planet , but it had the mass of Jupiter . This planet should not have gathered so much mass and packed it so tightly when it was so unaired to a high - gravitational attraction maven .

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Scientists think that it did n’t . Actually , the planet is the corpse of a star . The pulsar and the freshly - discovered planet were once a binary system . As they burnt through their fuel and come closer to one another , one headliner starting siphoning off the matter of the other . When it was done , it leave only a cold , fusion - less satellite .

But a pretty one . judge from the size and mountain of the adept , scientist think that a very large part of it will be crystalline atomic number 6 – the same stuff that rhomb are made of . The theft of most of its fuel left this celestial body a glitter jewel .

ViaNational Geographicand to be published inScience .

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