Which planet rains diamonds

Oddballs: The strange worlds beyond our Solar System. Find boosts 'diamond planet' idea. Diamond star thrills astronomers. Audio Slideshow: Storm on Saturn. Saturn hurricane is 12 times UK size. Diamond rain could be "the most common precipitation in the Solar System" the authors say.

Thunderstorm alleys. Gigantic storms on Saturn create black clouds of soot - which hardens into diamonds as it falls. The planet 55 Cancri e may not be so precious after all, a new study suggests.

Published 25 December Published 8 December Published 16 February Published 23 June Theorised to possibly be older than the Milky Way galaxy, this star, along with many others like it, prove that in some parts of our universe, diamonds are indeed forever. Curious to know more? Read on to find out about the star made of diamonds… Lucy.

Natural Diamonds are known to be found on earth. But in , a first of its kind discovery changed everything. Can Natural Diamonds be seen beyond earth? We try to find the answer to this. Thunder, lightning and storms give rise to a natural phenomenon on Saturn that makes it rain diamonds.

Roughly 1, tonnes of diamonds rain down every year on the planet! As it rains diamonds on Jupiter and Uranus, cool core prevents the diamonds from melting into glittering seas. According to scientists, these diamonds may never melt. Diamonds exist in outer space in abundance.

Known as extraterrestrial diamonds, these not only rain down on planets. They are found in meteors, stars and even exoplanets. The 55 Cancri e is made mostly of diamonds! Read More. In the new experiment, the team used a different method, measuring how X-rays scattered off electrons in the polystyrene. This allowed them not just to observe the conversion of carbon into diamond, but also what happens to the rest of the sample - it splits off into hydrogen. And there's pretty much no leftover carbon.

This is important, because there's something really weird about Neptune. Its interior is way hotter than it should be; in fact, it gives off 2. If diamonds - more dense than the material around them - are raining down into the planet's interior, they could be releasing gravitational energy, which is converted into heat generated by friction between the diamonds and the material around them.

This experiment suggests we don't have to find an alternative explanation… not yet, at any rate. And it also shows a method we could use to 'probe' the interiors of other planets in the Solar System.

It's a new way to study the evolutionary history of planets and planetary systems, as well as supporting experiments towards potential future forms of energy from fusion. The research has been published in Nature Communications.