A diamond in the sky!

A diamond in the sky! Amar Chandel Diamonds are forever. But they are not for everyone, given their fabulous cost. Just because you love them does not mean you can have them. For all those who dream of possessing a real large rock, Valentine Day this year came with a wish fulfilment. Scientists have discovered a huge sparkler. It is a 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 carat giant (that is 1 followed by 34 zeroes). Definitely too big to wear but still …showed first 75 words of 739 total…

…showed last 75 words of 739 total…such clusters. "The diameter of the cluster is equal to the distance between the sun and the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. Within that distance, we find 130 stars. By combining data from the Smithsonian's MMT Telescope in Arizona with Spitzer data, we find that roughly half of these stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust. Each of these disks is a forming solar system," says CfA researcher Tom Megeath. cite- tribuneinndia www.brardipasand.com