"Bill Hennessy" wrote in message . ..
BBC report abot a star made of diamond.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3492919.stm

That gets my vote for the second most absurd astronomy
illustration in mainstream media history, bested only by
CNN's usual illustration of a 3000-mile wide comet plunging
into the Earth every time a km-wide near-Earth object
comes within ten million miles of us.

Because a star's core is made "mostly from carbon" does
not mean it's made of anything resembling diamond. E.g.
just a few % iron (which is almost a certainty for a star core)
would nix that theory altogether.

Rick