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Saturn’s moon Enceladus has geysers that shoot diamonds.
The icy geysers on Enceladus contain tiny particles of diamond dust, created when organic molecules are exposed to extreme pressures inside the moon. These diamonds are microscopic but demonstrate the exotic chemistry occurring within this small moon.
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The entire Milky Way smells like rum and tastes like raspberries.
Large clouds of ethyl formate, a chemical that gives raspberries their flavor and rum its smell, have been...
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Some stars are cool enough to touch.
Brown dwarfs, failed stars that never got massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion, can have surface temperatures as...
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There’s a planet made largely of diamonds.
55 Cancri e, a super-Earth about 40 light-years away, is likely made largely of carbon under such extreme...