{"id":165551,"date":"2023-06-11T10:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/white-dwarf-star-enters-its-crystallization-era-turning-into-a-cosmic-diamond"},"modified":"2023-06-11T10:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T15:23:10","slug":"white-dwarf-star-enters-its-crystallization-era-turning-into-a-cosmic-diamond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/white-dwarf-star-enters-its-crystallization-era-turning-into-a-cosmic-diamond","title":{"rendered":"White Dwarf Star Enters Its Crystallization Era, Turning Into A \u2018Cosmic Diamond\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/white-dwarf-star-enters-its-crystallization-era-turning-into-a-cosmic-diamond2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To us, stars may resemble cut jewels, glittering coldly against the velvet darkness of the night sky. And for some of them, that may actually be sort of true.<\/p>\n<p>As a certain type of dead star cools, it gradually hardens and crystallizes. Astronomers have found one doing just that in our cosmic backyard, a white dwarf composed primarily of carbon and metallic oxygen just 104 light-years away, whose temperature-mass profile suggests that the center of the star is transforming into a dense, hard, \u2018cosmic diamond\u2019 made up of crystallized carbon and oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery is detailed in a paper accepted into the <em>Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society<\/em> and available on preprint website <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2306.03140\">arXiv<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To us, stars may resemble cut jewels, glittering coldly against the velvet darkness of the night sky. And for some of them, that may actually be sort of true. As a certain type of dead star cools, it gradually hardens and crystallizes. Astronomers have found one doing just that in our cosmic backyard, a white [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}