Lucy: The Earth-Sized Diamond Star in Space

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✨ Imagine a diamond bigger than Earth, floating in space. That’s not science fiction — it’s real. Meet Lucy (BPM 37093), the crystallized white dwarf star nicknamed the diamond star. 💎

Discovered about 50 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, Lucy is the largest diamond ever found in the universe — weighing an estimated 10 billion trillion trillion carats. Astronomers named it after the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”

In this video, we’ll explore:
🌌 What Lucy is and how it formed
💎 Why it’s made of crystallized carbon (a cosmic diamond)
☀️ How our own Sun will one day turn into a diamond star too
🤯 Strange facts about its density, size, and value

Lucy proves the universe hides gems on a cosmic scale — and it’s one of the weirdest stars ever discovered.

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