If the moon is made of cheese, then there must be diamonds in the sky. Astronomers recently discovered that there is a new planet in our galaxy that is made up entirely of diamonds.

“I want to go there and get some diamonds,” says senior Courtney Marafioti. If only going to the planet and back was possible, but unfortunately this planet is located 4,000 light years away. To put this into perspective one light year is 5.8 trillion miles away.

This rare planet is made of carbon and has a very high density level.  Scientists believe that the planet is crystallized, which means it’s a huge diamond planet. It is said that the planet had outer layers from the core, but lost them while orbiting its Pulsar.

A Pulsar is a speedy star that rotates 10,000 times per minute, but is only 12.4 kilometers in diameter. The pulsar gave off beams that had irregular movements which led to scientists to believe that there was another planet there and thus found the diamond planet. Without this one small star this new planet would not have been found.

Science has had many great advances. The diamond planet is a great discovery and will not be one of the last ones that science will come across.