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Release No.: 04-07 This Valentine's Day, Give The Woman Who Has Everything The Galaxy's Largest Diamond For Release: Friday, February 13, 2004

Astronomers have discovered a diamond star weighing 10 billion trillion trillion carats. The cosmic gem is the crystallized carbon core of a white dwarf star. Credit: Travis Metcalfe and Ruth Bazinet, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Low Resolution JPEG (45K) High Resolution JPEG (1.7MB) Animations: Although hidden inside the core of a white dwarf, a cutaway view of the diamond star would show quite a sparkle! Credit: Travis Metcalfe, Christine Pulliam, and Ruth Bazinet, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Half-size Quicktime movie(5MB) Full-size Quicktime movie(14MB)

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