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With an approximate weight of five million trillion trillion pounds, astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times, not on earth but in space. It is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon with a diameter of 4,000 kilometers and is located at a distance of 50 light years from Earth, in the Constellation Centaurus. Named Lucy or BPM 37093, this space diamond is actually a crystallized hot core of a star, left over after the star uses up its nuclear fuel and dies.

Scientists believe that the diamond is the heart of an extinct star that used to shine like the Sun. Astronomers have already dubbed the space diamond as Lucy in a tribute to the Beatles song ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.’

"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the Sun to grade this diamond!" says astronomer Travis Metcalfe (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), who leads a team of researchers that discovered the giant gem.

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