Massive Diamond Planet Orbits Neutron Star, Astronomers Find

dubdg 2011-08-27

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Using the giant Parkes Radio Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, astrophysicists have found an incredibly dense planet comprised of crystalized carbon -- the stuff of diamonds -- in orbit about a pulsar.
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