{"id":181551,"date":"2024-01-27T22:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T04:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/diamonds-could-be-raining-from-the-sky-on-far-more-planets-than-we-realized"},"modified":"2024-01-27T22:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T04:24:03","slug":"diamonds-could-be-raining-from-the-sky-on-far-more-planets-than-we-realized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/diamonds-could-be-raining-from-the-sky-on-far-more-planets-than-we-realized","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds Could Be Raining From The Sky on Far More Planets Than We Realized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/diamonds-could-be-raining-from-the-sky-on-far-more-planets-than-we-realized2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So cool and fascinating!!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If it were ever possible to take a flight through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/something-strange-is-happening-to-neptune-as-temperature-unexpectedly-fluctuates\">the extreme conditions of Neptune\u2019s atmosphere<\/a>, we might experience the fascinating phenomenon of diamond rain tapping at our window.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new study by an international team of researchers, such a blizzard of bling could be relatively common throughout the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>Carbon can link into a crystal on giant, icy gas planets like Neptune and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-is-uranus\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Uranus<\/a> because of the ultra-high temperatures and pressures deep down in the atmosphere. These conditions break up hydrocarbons like methane, allowing the carbon atoms within to connect with four others and make particles of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/distant-worlds-with-diamond-rain-may-populate-the-universe-scientists-say\">solid diamond<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So cool and fascinating!! If it were ever possible to take a flight through the extreme conditions of Neptune\u2019s atmosphere, we might experience the fascinating phenomenon of diamond rain tapping at our window. According to a new study by an international team of researchers, such a blizzard of bling could be relatively common throughout the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181551","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}