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A girl 's best friend may have just got a whole lot bigger with the news that an international research team has a small planet that think they can be discovered from diamond. Although the planet is calculated to have a diameter of less than 60,000 km - which is about five times the diameter of the Earth - it has slightly more massive than Jupiter. With the planet probably largely made of carbon and oxygen are meant to its high density it is almost certain crystalline, meaning that a large part of the planet is like a diamond. .. Continue Reading International team discovers planet from diamond

Section: Science and Education

Tags: Astronomy, CSIRO, Planet, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Manchester

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