reuters: Forget the diamond as big as the Ritz. This one’s bigger than planet Earth. Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond. The rocky planet, called ‘55 Cancri e’, orbits a sun-like star in the constellation of Cancer and is moving so fast that a year there lasts a mere 18 hours. Discovered by a U.S.-Franco research team, its radius is twice that of Earth’s but it is much more dense with a mass eight times greater. It is also incredibly hot, with temperatures on its surface reaching 3,900 degrees Fahrenheit (1,648 Celsius). READ ON: A diamond bigger than Earth? … wasn’t this the one when the Doctor went on a trip and got trapped with a thing that did an instantaneous echo and Donna, while she was in the episode, was largely unseen because se took a spa day? Midnight, tight? I gotta watch that one again.

reuters:

Forget the diamond as big as the Ritz. This one’s bigger than planet Earth.

Orbiting a star that is visible to the naked eye, astronomers have discovered a planet twice the size of our own made largely out of diamond.

The rocky planet, called ‘55 Cancri e’, orbits a sun-like star in the constellation of Cancer and is moving so fast that a year there lasts a mere 18 hours.

Discovered by a U.S.-Franco research team, its radius is twice that of Earth’s but it is much more dense with a mass eight times greater. It is also incredibly hot, with temperatures on its surface reaching 3,900 degrees Fahrenheit (1,648 Celsius).

READ ON: A diamond bigger than Earth?

… wasn’t this the one when the Doctor went on a trip and got trapped with a thing that did an instantaneous echo and Donna, while she was in the episode, was largely unseen because se took a spa day? Midnight, tight? I gotta watch that one again.

(via zarggg)

Source: reuters
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