Massive Diamond Planet Orbits Neutron Star, Astronomers Find

[wavsunlimited]

I live in a pulsar system... in EVE online xD

[jmitterii2]

Diamonds are a girl's best friend. So this planet would be a girl's biggest best friend.

[JohnnyKidder]

Remember not to use a stone pickaxe!

[DBZ1FAN1GIRL]

so basically it was a star that was made of carbon and due the it spinning around at such a fast speed that the pressure condensed it to form a diamond...right?

[VideoFromSpace]

@DBZ1FAN1GIRL Not the speed of the spin. It was the mass of the star that compressed its carbon core. It spun up when it blew off its outer layers of gas/plasma.

[BoogsterSU2]

Finally. A planet that Rarity could live in. :)

[jesperjesper123]

oh no hopefully the mankind will never get there hands on that planet we're too greedy

[SpicyHam]

Where is it located in the solar system, I've got my shovel and bag ready.

[vonalambert]

problem minecraft?

[bikeboooy123]

is that vsauce army coming?

[sitondeeznutz]

if we get ahold of that thing we can use to finally defeat the woman species lol

[Eriance]

So stars can become planets now? :O

[VideoFromSpace]

@Eriance Always could. Matter in the Universe is a continuum from the smallest grains of dust to the superclusters of galaxies. As objects gain or lose mass their behavior cahnegs and we call them by different names. But that doesn't mean they actually ARE distinctly different.

[Voligne]

Mr.T Be funding a space mission so he can get the blingiest bling in the whole galaxy. He pitty the fool who says no.

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

my gf says im not romantic enough or very smart, time to to invent instellar travel and plant a ring bracket in that giant diamond. She cant actually wear is because the diamond itself would crush her.

[VideoFromSpace]

@Pimpmastahanhduece Your GF is a genius. Recommend your marry her immediately, bro.

[StarsDemon97]

@VideoFromSpace lol thats mean but so true lol

[TheOmegaLoneWolf]

i don't know much on making diamonds at all, but don't you need WATER mixed in the process to make it?

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

@TheOmegaLoneWolf nope, oxygen and hydrogen are just impurities. All you need is atomically pure carbon and lots of heat and pressure.

[TheSonicMinecrafter]

welcome to minecraft heaven

[Kenzofeis]

Explain exactly how neutrons can be clustered into a long lasting "nucleus" the size of a hypothesised neutron star, and so dense it competes with some scientists.

[Acrimonator]

@Kenzofeis

hint: gravity...

[RetardedShit1]

Yes I would like to officially claim that planet as mine thank you. You see I'm doing it like our founding fathers did "I declare this expanse of land as mine" so yeah its mine now.

[GermanSniperBayArea]

to bad its impossible to get anywhere close to that planet even if we could travel there.

[pennysarecute2]

@ed1222 Not if your owned by a creepet

[ChuniaC]

Found myself some diamauuunnnnnnd! (It's glorius!)

[MadEmoGenius]

how did that diamond get there? O-o I allways thought diamont is made out of carbon, which exists out of pressurized plantmatter?

let me know if I'm wrong lol.

BTW, sorry for my bad english, I'm dutch and 15 y/o

[VideoFromSpace]

@MadEmoGenius The carbon exists before the plant. It's a (fairly) common element in the Universe; it's built by and within stars.

[MadEmoGenius]

@VideoFromSpace @Helge129

thanks for the comments ;D

[andrynor]

@VideoFromSpace @MadEmoGenius During the course of a star's life many elements are fabricated, eventually the rare metals we see on Earth. The star in the video was probably a lot like our own star. Towards the end of its life, it would have made a lot of carbon. Three things are required to make a diamond: time, heat and pressure. A star obviously qualifies and the neutron star is so massive it's more luck than anything that the remnant survived.

[Helge129]

@MadEmoGenius The carbon was formed inside a massive star, when that star blew up, the carbon core was compresed into Diamond.

[skipstalforce]

@MadEmoGenius yes and every cell in your body is made from elements that were created in stars. The stuff of life is every where.

[TheMustafaSharifi]

IvanderHiasily I agree

[Nick4563880]

Dibs

[fellowman27]

I love science



[modtwo2]

I guess Rainbow Brite and the Starstealer had it right!

[TheSupermanonthesand]

The question is...Will it blend?

[michelangelocrisis]

Scumbag Nasa.......they cancel space the space program then show us a planet full of diamonds.

[1055boy]

@michelangelocrisis Scumbag NASA should be a meme :D

[nisteven]

@michelangelocrisis They did not cancel anything, corporations and the government did.

Plus this is not a planet full of diamond, it one big diamond.

[OliveTheBreloom]

We're naming it Midnight.

[Dtsumo]

This thing has about as much mass as Jupiter, so setting up a mining colony would be quite difficult.

[myuu22]

how was the density of the planet determined?

[blademaster564]

@myuu22 the researchers can determine the size from images on the radio telescope and then use the lensing caused by the gravity of the object to determine its mass then used the equation density = mass/volume to calculate its density

[jazzaste123]

This is so amazing thank u very much for posting really amazing stuff love less an

[itimiii]

It's Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tubemen!

[Skrillex7883]

SELL IT ON EBAY!

[ADAMSIVES]

Great work with the video Professor and team! I LOVE neutron stars. Very enigmatic and strong I loved the part of the animation where the radio waves of the pulsar stream right towards you. If I rubbed a lantern and a Genie popped out to grant me three wishes, I'd wish I could touch a neutron star. Three times.

[MinecraftOfEpic]

Dont Go There  There Are Creepersssssss *KBOOM*

[cocostar45]

wow

[MrTellUStuff]

well erogite and ur arguing campanion with a wierd name u both have good points now shut up

[jamez2015076]

full diamond armor for everyone!!!

[kenneth04123]

FCK We need Jimmy Neutron

its better than the astrorubies you know

[ed1222]

BEHOLD, the Creeper home planet

[HotXingVG]

@VideoFromSpace Do you know if humans will ever be able to reach this planet and mine for the diamonds on it? If diamonds are the hardest material found by man so far, I think this would have been the most useful discovery in a while.

[Erg0lite]

@HotXingVG This, my friends, is a perfect example of the human race's greed and ignorance. We find something beautiful anywhere, we want to take it and claim it as ours. That star was there for the Universe knows how many billions of years, and now, mister HotXingVG wants to take it and claim it as ours. To answer your question, with another question: do you have any idea just how strong the gravity is near one of those? Take your friends, go mine it, be my guest :)

[HotXingVG]

@Erg0lite Actually the reason I asked is because I'm not ignorant. Even thoguh we have enough resources to last a long time, what if we need more. It's not greed, it the need to supply the race with tools. Anyways, I don't care about jewelery, it's worthless to me. It's for tools to help us survive. Maybe you shouldent assume that one person is the same as all the rest.

[HotXingVG]

@Erg0lite Also, how ignorant can you get? Diamond? Beautiful? Get real. People dont care about beauty and how rare stuff is. People don't want diamonds earrings and rings because they look nice, they want it because it's overly expensive, and that will make people look rich. Maybe humans should revert back to thinking using instinct. Free will has given us feeling, and that has lead to bad judgement.

[Erg0lite]

@HotXingVG Rape and pillage my minions, rape and pillage!

[VideoFromSpace]

@HotXingVG Well, "ever" is a long time. But ErgOlite's point is well taken. One way to put this in perspective: If future humans had the technology to make such a trip, they'd also be able to make as much diamond (or just about anything else) they might need; thus rendering the journey (and possibility spaceflight in general) totally unnecessary.

[mrskysquid]

@VideoFromSpace youve gotta be creative you could send a robot there and have it harvest it

[TheEduRBF]

@VideoFromSpace then diamonds wold be cheap as water

[pressure57]

@HotXingVG If we were able to reach that giant diamond... the value of diamonds would be shit for worth... because we'd be mining a DIAMOND PLANET... we'd have diamonds in our cereal ._.

[HotXingVG]

@pressure57 I dont care about worth, jewelry is useless. But we can use the diamond for other things. Some really expensive circuits need diamonds. So that would actually make alot of needed equipment cheaper. That would actually help.

[pawndominance1]

@HotXingVG even if we could, its a planet orbiting a pulsar extremely close--the amount of gravity we'd feel actually walking around on the surface of it would prob be millions of times stronger than what we feel on earth--so in other words we couldnt walk on it--or get anywhere near it without being ripped to shreds :P

[GenFangBlade]

@HotXingVG diamonds are fragil they're "hardest" in terms of scratching

[IvanderHaisley]

@GenFangBlade wow,, your dumb..

[AgrivatedKillah]

@IvanderHaisley he's right...

[IvanderHaisley]

@AgrivatedKillah not really..

[IvanderHaisley]

@IvanderHaisley resistance to scratching means that it is hard... not fragile,,, fragility simply means the opposite of durability .. if you say a material resists scratching that much, then the material at a bigger scale (i.e. bigger than the surface) you be harder... example, a string metal can't be stronger than the block metal in terms of physical means of handling pressure ..

[MultiChipper]

THE SPACE GOLD RACE HAS BEGUN!

[Amigo21189]

@Hope4BestPlan4Worst I genuinely regret to inform you of this, but... If not for a few rather famous, wealthy, influential, & tight-fisted folk whom I will leave nameless, terrestrial (Earthly) diamonds -- even the gem-quality ones that are rare by comparison with their industrial cousins -- would already be as worthless as the asphalt in your nearest Wallyworld parking lot.

[TrollingDr]

@Amigo21189 worth is not a universal measure, what is completely worthless to one person might possess great value to another, ever heard one mans trash is another mans treasure, while diamonds tend to be rather valuable today only because people decided they like them and everyone wants what they cannot have so the price skyrockets, i do agree with you, the people that have these diamonds are the cause for the high price

[foxmcloud23]

thats some serious bling bling

[merachelanne]

I want to go there!!! Where the hell is the doctor when you need him?

[jwest1892]

kinda reminds me of that planet from doctor who

[Siska0Robert]

wait here, i'm back in 8000 years...

[SturmFuhrerx]

Wow! With this huge amount of diamond one can make a woman happy for an entire....week?

[Neueregel]

@SturmFuhrerx nah, maybe for 1-3 days. Most of them are too greedy and consumer-materialists

[loudspeaker237]

We could use the stellar inner energy from the giant diamond to travel through time!

[Tobybuscusfan]

how did i get here form minecraft...

[THEHUGE8BALL]

@Tobybuscusfan cuz Diamonds

[MrNebulonicalchemy]

how could we use all those diamonds? By the time we reach this place, if we were to go, money would be obsolete. So.. if not for a wedding ring or tip for cutting and drilling tools.. then what? hmmm..

[GreenPeaceAdmin]

@ed1222

No dummy, it would make a giant shovel!

[leahcimrac]

---insert Chuck Norris joke here---

[ed1222]

That thing's gonna make a LOOOOOOOOOT of pickaxes...

[TrollingDr]

@ed1222 minecraft ftw

[HotXingVG]

@ed1222 Ah shaddap xD

[MiKeLBR123]

@ed1222 And armors, swords...

[namiexamuroxnobody]

@ed1222 Then Supernovas would be creepers and Endermen would be black holes. X''D

[Hope4BestPlan4Worst]

If this was on earth then diamonds wud've been cheaper than the 1/2 $ lollipop i'm sucking right now

[xerke]

What I would like to know is does the diamond/carbonite on that planet have the same density on the surface than in the core/middle of that planet because of the fact that the pulsar fed on it?

[darkilustrisimus]

whats could be a gravity of that planet?

[L00NGB00W]

@darkilustrisimus Based on the information in the video, it's has the same mass as Jupiter but is around 16 times as dense as Jupiter.

This is a rough guesstimate, but I'd say on the surface of the planet you'd feel around 38 G's.

So, if you weigh 100 pounds on Earth, you'd weigh 3800 pounds on that planet.

[zytigon]

For more on science & nature try books by top scientists; astronomer Victor J. Stenger, ' Fallacy of fine tuning ', Richard Dawkins, ' Unweaving the rainbow ' & ' The greatest show on earth ' & PZ Meyers & the website Talkorigins

[TeamZombieCreeper]

i own tht planet

[SOSdanChoreBoy]

Look down, back up, where are you? You're in outer space, with that star you've always wanted. Look again--the star is now DIAMONDS.

[johnyjoe2k]

That is one huge and stupendously expensive wedding ring(referring to the diamond orbiting the neutron star).

[Bollatic]

Great, more places to get pushed into lava when mining...

[madenew000]

interesting until you started talking 'millions' of years! can you prove that the universe is that old?

[elminino21]

@madenew000 what you believe that the universe is 6000 years old? if is so that makes a lot sense.

[madenew000]

@elminino21

sarcasm leads you nowhere but it will only expose yourself to open-eyes! do not try to put words in my mouth. it is not wise. can you prove that the universe is billions and billions of yrs old?

[haroos]

so a 10km mass was once a black hole that fed on a sun ?

then what happened to all the left over matter ?

500000 as much as the earth is still small compared to the our sun, right ?

[VideoFromSpace]

@haroos The Sun is about 333,000 times more massive than Earth. the 10km object is a neutron star (not a black hole) but, yes, it did feed on a dwarf star, as it (the pulsar) was forming. So most of the mass went from the large but non-dense dwarf star to the tiny but highly dense neutron star. A little bit of mass was converted to energy. And the remaining mass of the dead dwarf is compacted carbon; in other words: diamond.

[SakamaruNetoi]

@VideoFromSpace Interesting, so the leftover carbon became condensed... so the pulsar transformed a star into a diamond planet... That's amazing and awesome lol.

[knockdown10]

NERDS.....

[luketkin]

OMG MIDNIGHT FROM DR WHO!

[numanumamanman]

Who on earth disliked this IT'S A FRIKIN DIAMOND PLANET WHAT IS THERE TO DISLIKE

[perfectmodel10]

@numanumamanman y cant earth be a dimond planet we would be the richist people in the galixsy and when we r out of mony we can just grab the rock dimonds y cant our world be rich and fab???

[OperationRageQuit]

@perfectmodel10 What the fuck did you just type?

[johnizzle725]

@perfectmodel10 BAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[ed1222]

@numanumamanman Someone who wasted money on a wedding ring and got rejected?

[Pickles4578]

on that planet plastic is super expensive

[4shacks1house]

Antwerp is interested.

[fuck11981]

thats cool

[MammalAnonymous]

@xDoctorwho is an ignorant retard @shadowfarce255 is just ignorant

nobody fuckin uses logic these days

[VideoFromSpace]

@MammalAnonymous Speaketh for Thyself.

[MammalAnonymous]

@VideoFromSpace That statement would apply if I was you :D

[Deadsotc95]

Someone has to go there and get and literaly take all the diamond

[joeyvigil]

lol, love how the scientist who made this channel owns people so badly with knowledge. also kind of shows that some people don't believe in basic scientific concepts. lol omg.

[xDoctorWho]

Bullshit. How the fuck is a star going to have 700 rotations per second.

[VideoFromSpace]

@xDoctorWho Guess what, doc, they actually do. All stars spin including our Sun (watch sunspots to see it). When a supernova blows up and it's core contracts, the angular momentum is conserved in the much smaller volume so its rotation really puts the pedal to the metal. The proof? We hear these bad boys buzzing – literally hear them – with radio-telescopes.

[xDoctorWho]

@VideoFromSpace Mhm.

[4842Chuck]

So whats the co-ordinates? Got any pics? Can it be viewed by any of the astronomy programs?

[vladimirkafm]

Good... I will name it Planet Vladimir 001... The real treasure planet... I will try to find a way to bring that shiny looking thing here on Earth... I'll be the richest person in history...

[Yebanashka]

Sell your diamonds now while they still haven't reach that planet

[ELTACOKING]

I shall go to this planet and come back rich....

Anyone want in? Only cost avg 500M each person >.>...

Any maybe a other 10 years to let technology advance.

[nightshroud7578]

dude someone should make a mod for minecraft for this



[Superbowserfreak11]

VSauce ARMY COMING!

[DarraghJay]

1:44 Is that yellow orb representing the stars heliosphere?

[VideoFromSpace]

@DarraghJay No. That yellow sphere represents the diameter of our Sun. The whole of this system (pulsar + diamond planet) could be contained INSIDE a volume the size of our Sun!

[DarraghJay]

@VideoFromSpace Oh, so how big is the heliosphere?

[VideoFromSpace]

@DarraghJay We think it works like this: Pulsars – being neutron stars – don't produce a stellar wind, per se, except in the form of their polar radio emissions (the only way we know about them at all). So they don't "blow a bubble" in the interstellar medium the way spherically radiative stars do. But they do spin out a current sheath that probably has a crenelated bow-shock of some sort. How big? Don't know. They're weird ducks.

[shadowfarce255]

However this IS assuming that the stuff our there is comprised of the same elements that we have here on Earth. We can't know for sure unless we observe it up close and personal, right? I mean, space is BIG so I wouldn't assume that all the elements we have here on Earth are all the elements that are in the universe, but that's just me anyways. I'm no scientist.

[VideoFromSpace]

@shadowfarce255 No. The observable Universe is composed of the same elements found on – and in – Earth.

[Nordozan]

With all due respect, it would be much better if the narrator was chosen to be someone with a more clear voice.

[VideoFromSpace]

@Nordozan Noted. Do be aware, though, that the narrator is one of the astronomers who made the discovery. I think we could cut him some slack, don't you?.

[Nordozan]

@VideoFromSpace Indeed. In that case, the video could be supplemented with subtitles since I believe not everyone watching the video is a native speaker of the English language. Thanks for your concern.

[valkiris]

@Nordozan His voice was pretty clear to me, and I have bad hearing.

[VideoFromSpace]

@catherinurvy We don't assume that other civilization must be more advanced. It's simply that we're unlikely to hear from those that aren't. And, until and unless WE advance (at least a tiny bit more), we won't be able to locate those that are not.

[jbear0000]

So how many pickaxes will I need to mine it?

[Gr8rThenU]

There would be no point harvesting that planet because it would be worth no more then my turd

Reason diamonds are rare on this planet thats why they cost money if we took all that diamonds it would not be rare therefore it would not be exspensive.

[NoIngNames]

If you put a golden ring on that, that'll be hell of a jewelry.

[FxckCensors]

Problem economy?

[ToastedButterfly]

Minecrafters prepare for the voyage, we leave at dawn.

[ryandot4]

@ToastedButterfly i'll get the pork

[aznspunk]

if they go there, diamond wont be as expensive :/ its gonna be like water

[aznspunk]

@aznspunk the value i mean

[Snoborder95]

i might die but i am willing to explore this for my country oh and im bringing along my souvenir bag if ya dont mind

[adracamas]

Wow.. it's almost like an Alf episode. Some heralded as SO PRECIOUS it 'meh' to that pulsar. lol

[Blingpup06]

look at your planet it is now diamonds

[TheJayman213]

giant cocks radio telescope?????

[kidrhimel]

i looked into the comments section just to laugh at all the wanna be scientists and astronomers lol

[patrickbowers1]

Its mine!

[NetherNerd]

So....you coming back NASA?

[simonwizzle91]

DIBS



[kONflictOD]

The Space Race is on Again!!!

[7orqu3]

is the carbon planet a remnant of the super nova that must of happen if the nutron star was stripping material from a star ? was it bigger before cover in gas and the carbon was its core or is it like a cool white dwarf ?

[VideoFromSpace]

@7orqu3 As we understand it, the carbon planet is a remnant of a dwarf star. It is the pulsar that is the remnant of the supernova. The dwarf may have survived the supernova and only later (perhaps MUCH later) been pulled into close orbit. But our understanding may not be correct or complete.

[MrBadassBeaner]

@VideoFromSpace Is It Smaller Or Bigger Than Earth

[Pessus]

so can any 1 go get it or some 1 own it allready??

[Dirtfire]

@Pessus lol, no. no one's gonna be mining that planet in our lifetimes.

[Pessus]

@Dirtfire but what about our generation :'( we only got steel pickaxes :'(

[Dirtfire]

@Pessus humans will probably figure out how to make good diamonds from scratch well before we ever get there.

[Jerbod2]

Guys, grab your pickaxes, we're going in space!

[noname4096]

@Jerbod2 But the pickaxes will break as diamond is the hardest substance, harder than steel.