That's rediculous.

If you have carbon with high temperature and pressure.... guess what you get
here on earth?
Sure it might not be in one piece, but can easily be millions of earth sized
ones.


"Rick" wrote in message
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"Bill Hennessy" wrote in message
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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